Vietnam from a different vantage point
New HBO miniseries ‘The Sympathizer’ offers a fresh take on the polarising anti-communist conflict, telling the story from a Southeast Asian perspective
02 June 2024 - 00:00
Vietnamese-American author Viet Thanh Nguyen’s 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Sympathizer has been adapted into a seven-part series produced by A24, Rhombus Media and Team Downey — the production company of Oscar-winner Robert Downey Jr and his wife, Susan — for HBO. ..
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