Sandra Oh's New HBO Series Is Based On This Pulitzer-Winning Spy Novel

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Sandra Oh's New HBO Series Is Based On This Pulitzer-Winning Spy Novel

— Hopper Stone/HBOBased on Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, HBO’s The Sympathizer tells the story of a Vietnamese spy who moves to America after the war. But if you’re expecting a straightforward spy thriller, you may be in for a surprise. The 2015 novel is told in the form of the unnamed storyteller’s confession after being captured — and from the beginning, when the spy says he’s a “man of two minds,” it’s cle…