Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War

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Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award
Finalist, National Book Award in Nonfiction
A New York Times Book Review “The Year in Reading” Selection

All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Sympathizer comes a searching exploration of the conflict Americans call the Vietnam War and Vietnamese call the American War–a conflict that lives on in the collective memory of both nations.

“[A] gorgeous, multifaceted examination of the war Americans call the Vietnam War–and which Vietnamese call the American War…As a writer, [Nguyen] brings every conceivable gift–wisdom, wit, compassion, curiosity–to the impossible yet crucial work of arriving at what he calls ‘a just memory’ of this war.”
–Kate Tuttle, Los Angeles Times

“In Nothing Ever Dies, his unusually thoughtful consideration of war, self-deception and forgiveness, Viet Thanh Nguyen penetrates deeply into memories of the Vietnamese war…[An] important book, which hits hard at self-serving myths.”
–Jonathan Mirsky, Literary Review

“Ultimately, Nguyen’s lucid, arresting, and richly sourced inquiry, in the mode of Susan Sontag and W. G. Sebald, is a call for true and just stories of war and its perpetual legacy.”
–Donna Seaman, Booklist (starred review)

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Viet Thanh Nguyen
Published: 11/20/2017
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674979840
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 1.10″ H x 8.20″ L x 5.40″ W

About the Author
Nguyen, Viet Thanh: – Viet Thanh Nguyen is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, Nothing Ever Dies, and, most recently, To Save and to Destroy. A recipient of the MacArthur Foundation and Guggenheim fellowships and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Nguyen is Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.