To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other

by Viet Thanh Nguyen

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer (now an HBO series) comes a moving and unflinchingly personal meditation on the literary forms of otherness and a bold call for expansive political solidarity.

Born in war-ravaged Vietnam, Viet Nguyen arrived in the United States as a child refugee in 1975. The Nguyen family would soon move to San Jose, California, where the author grew up, attending UC Berkeley in the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674298179
• ISBN13: 9780674298170
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 144 Pages