The Americans by Viet Thanh Nguyen: My Review
“It was a trivial secret, but one I would remember as vividly as my feeling that while some people are haunted by the dead, others are haunted by the living.” - From the Text
This story presents the aftermath of the war in Vietnam. Carver worked as a pilot of a fi ghter jet for American forces during the Vietnam war and then, later in life, married a Japanese woman named Michiko who bore him a daughter, Claire, and a son, William. Claire is shown to have moved to Vietnam with her boyfriend, Legaspi and Carver with his wife go there to visit their daughter.
Claire’s stance on moving to Vietnam seems rebellion against what her father and nation had done to other nations. Carver seems an ignorant, frustrated and arrogant man blinded by patriotism who constantly keeps pointing out faults and fl aws within Vietnamese people and society without realising that all these problems he has with Vietnam are the aftermath and direct outcomes of the American oppression that he was also a …
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