A Man of Two Faces

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<b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024</b> <b> 'A triumphant memoir'</b> <i><b>Cathy Park Hong, author of MINOR FEELINGS, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize</b></i> <b> The highly original, blistering, and unconventional memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of <i>The Sympathizer</i>, which has now sold over one million copies worldwide</b> With insight, humour, formal invention, and lyricism, in <i>A Man of Two Faces</i> Nguyen rewinds the film of his own life. He expands the genre of personal memoir by acknowledging larger stories of refugeehood, colonization, and ideas about Vietnam and America, writing with his trademark sardonic wit and incisive analysis, as well as a deep emotional openness about his life as a father and a son. At the age of four, Nguyen and his family are forced to flee his hometown of Ban Mê Thu?t and come to the USA as refugees. After being removed from his brother and parents and homed with a family on his own, Ngu