Bragging? India vowed to protect Singapore even since before you are born. And that was requested by your own country.
You are so right man, digging trenches with small tools is so slow and so 20th century.
You can keep your low grade and smelly soldiers in India and defend from the enemies Modi keeps making for India.
As I said before, you even dont know how many powers invested how much in Singapore in protecting it.
That is not a docking service.
I know this man, I followed his facebook. i dont like his novels.2016 Pulitzer Prizes
JOURNALISM
For distinguished fiction published in book form during the year by an American author, preferably dealing with American life, Ten thousand dollars ($10,000).
The Sympathizer, by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Grove Press)
A layered immigrant tale told in the wry, confessional voice of a "man of two minds" -- and two countries, Vietnam and the United States.
Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger (left) presents the 2016 Fiction Prize to Viet Thanh Nguyen.
WINNING WORK
The Sympathizer
By Viet Thanh Nguyen
A profound, startling, and beautifully crafted debut novel, The Sympathizer is the story of a man of two minds, someone whose political beliefs clash with his individual loyalties. In dialogue with but diametrically opposed to the narratives of the Vietnam War that have preceded it, this novel offers an important and unfamiliar new perspective on the war: that of a conflicted communist sympathizer.
It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be given passage aboard the last flights out of the country. The general and his compatriots start a new life in Los Angeles, unaware that one among their number, the captain, is secretly observing and reporting on the group to a higher-up in the Viet Cong.
The Sympathizer is the story of this captain: a man brought up by an absent French father and a poor Vietnamese mother, a man who went to university in America, but returned to Vietnam to fight for the Communist cause. Viet Thanh Nguyen’s astonishing novel takes us inside the mind of this double agent, a man whose lofty ideals necessitate his betrayal of the people closest to him. A gripping spy novel, an astute exploration of extreme politics, and a moving love story, The Sympathizer explores a life between two worlds and examines the legacy of the Vietnam War in literature, film, and the wars we fight today.
-- from the publisher
Why don't you like his book? Is it because his style of writing? I read some pages he seems to have humor taking everything on light shoulder. The English speaking media love him though. For a debut novel it is not too bad.
Bragging? India vowed to protect Singapore even since before you are born. And that was requested by your own country.
Read your own history before claiming any more bullshit. Please read it.
And as for this, Singapore violated this agreement
https://www.iesingapore.gov.sg/Trad...ational-Agreements/free-trade-agreements/CECA
If you wacht these video like that and read his novel, you know the reason why
I watched the video. That shows battle scenes of the Vietnam war. Also I read parts of his novel. Make your point sis.
A long time, I see his post and read his novel. Sure, His novel, big part of them are concentrating on Vietnam War. I know he is a refugee and his family was affected by this war, and It inspired him so much. But this time is to heal the wounds of war between two sides of Vietnamese. Maybe some of his novels are true and expose the truth, not his imagination, I don't know, But I don't support for his novel. Example:"The Sympathizer is the story of this captain: a man brought up by an absent French father and a poor Vietnamese mother, a man who went to university in America, but returned to Vietnam to fight for the Communist cause". What does he want to transmit to the reader through this novel? I don't understand. Lol, so ridiculous.
Sis It's a fictional novel, no need to take it too serious.
In Chinese novel, they usually build and express their self-respect for the nation and inspire it to the reader, viewer.OK, maybe the comparison is lame and not suitable to the Vietnamese status. But It is one thing we should learn from them. I know many Vietnamese people in oversea want to contribute to the developing of Vietnam. Yes, It is also a good example for him, me and you. Why did some of us keep the past? Take it away and look forward in the future.
