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THE INTERPRETER Pulitzer prize-winning author David K. Shipler's fictionalized story of a Vietnamese interpreter, based on his own experiences as a war correspondent, brings back the tensions within Vietnam during the war, focusing on a local with close ties to American journalists and politicians. The Interpreter is based on the true story of a Vietnamese translator who is wounded—not physically—by a love of country too pure for the contaminated choices that confront him. Dragged by an inner search, he has wandered among the neat categories of allegiance imposed by Vietnam's lifetime of warfare and foreign occupation. But he fits into none of the available boxes—not Communist, not Government, not pro-American, nor any of the assortment of political dissidents who populate the shadowy warrens of Saigon. He finds no home with either the tortured or the torturers. Instead, he...

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Author

David K. Shipler

Publisher

Green City Books

Published

2025

Language

EN

ISBN

9781963101072

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Historical Fiction, Fiction

Rating

2.98 / 5 (68 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14