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...Nearly two hours into my lunch with the scholar, writer and provocateur Viet Thanh Nguyen, I hear myself apologise....
...Born in Vietnam and raised in America, Viet Thanh Nguyen interrogates his dual identity and the fallibility of memory in his latest book, A Man of Two Faces....
...New York-based Nobu Hospitality, known for its eponymous Japanese restaurant, will also establish its first presence in Vietnam in partnership with Viet Capital Real Estate....
...Eddie Adams’ photograph of General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong suspect. Ron Haeberle’s photographs of the My Lai massacre....
...Whereas, for instance, Viet Thanh Nguyen, another acclaimed and influential migrant novelist, has dismissed “craft” as a distraction from politics, Hamid revels in the “formal, structural and linguistic...
...With the release of his brainy, brawny second novel, The Committed, Viet Thanh Nguyen surpasses his most prominent American literary influence: Ralph Ellison never published a successor to his 1952 novel...
...The following month, Francis Spufford, best known for his award-winning 2016 novel Golden Hill, returns with Light Perpetual (Faber, February) and Viet Thanh Nguyen publishes The Committed (Corsair)....
...Guitarist Nguyên Lê is the French-born son of Vietnamese parents. He recorded his first genre-crossing reflections on cultural migration and mutation, Tales from Viêt-nam, in 1996....
...“Vietnam’s aviation market has a lot of potential and is developing strongly, but it also has large companies already in operation,” Nguyen Viet Quang, Vingroup’s deputy chairman and chief executive, said...
...But while the over-65s were more likely to drink every day, with a small glass of table wine, the younger French generation also tended to drink less often but more when they did, Viet Nguyen Thanh, head...
...The group’s chief executive, the billionaire Nguyen Viet Quang, said the company planned to launch four smartphone models in fewer than six months, representing the group’s “commitment and determination...
...Uber’s legacy in Vietnam still lingers, however, with some former Uber executives having joined Go-Viet, including Mr Nguyen. Go-Viet is also attracting former Uber drivers and customers....
...One afternoon in Hanoi, I met Nguyen Anh Tuan, an activist who belongs to Vietnam’s small but vocal dissident community....
...Nguyen Viet Quang, group chief executive of Vingroup, said at a launch event on Friday that the smartphones would be part of an “ecosystem of smart AI devices”, including televisions....
...“We are heartened that Nguyen Van Dai does not have to endure more years of prison,” Duy Hoang, a spokesperson for Viet Tan, said on Friday....
...“Investments in the two sectors will not only help Vingroup reach new heights, but also create a new tech-industry environment to boost Vietnam in the world’s technology ceremony,” said Nguyen Viet Quang...
...Ngo Viet Nam Son, an architect who worked on Pudong’s development, thinks city planners erred by drawing up blueprints for Thu Thiem in isolation....
...His latest book, ‘The Refugees’, is published this month Photographs: AFP/Getty Images; Viet Thanh Nguyen...
...Viet Thanh Nguyen’s poignant collection of short stories, The Refugees, follows the call of those and many other restless questions....
...Nguyen Dac Viet Dung, Sendo’s chairman, says he plans to raise more money to keep growing....
...As a writer, Mariana Enríquez reminds me of Yaa Gyasi (Homegoing), Viet Thanh Nguyen (The Sympathizer) and other members of the tribe who have learnt more powerful ways to tell what happens to countries...
...The accepted reality of the Vietnam war was constructed of images taken by photojournalists including Nick Ut’s “The Terror of War”, Eddie Adams’s “General Nguyen Ngoc Loan Executing a Viet Cong Prisoner...
...Than Duc Viet, deputy general director of the state-run textile company, broke into a rousing speech. “If the TPP falls through, we can always look to Europe or South Korea,” he told managers....
...It is this strange context that makes the appearance of The Sympathizer — a novel by the young Vietnamese-American writer Viet Thanh Nguyen — so interesting....
...The Refugees, by Viet Thanh Nguyen, Corsair, RRP£12.99/Grove Press, RRP$25 Stories on the migrant experience by the author of The Sympathizer, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction....
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