Includes an essay "Our Vietnam War never ended" by the author and an interview with the author "Viet Thanh Nguyen : anger in the Asian American novel" by Paul Tran

The story of a South Vietnamese captain -- a man brought up by an absent French father and a poor Vietnamese mother, a man who went to university in America -- who returns to Vietnam to fight for the Communist cause.

A sweeping epic of love and betrayal. The narrator, a communist double agent, is a "man of two minds," a half-French, half-Vietnamese army captain who comes to America after the Fall of Saigon, and while building a new life with other Vietnamese refugees in Los Angeles is secretly reporting back to his communist superiors in Vietnam. The novel is an exploration of identity and America, a spy novel, and a story of love and friendship. --From publisher's description