2024 Sydney Writers Festival: author Viet Thanh Nguyen on the dual identity of a Vietnamese refugee

Best of the Festivals
26/12/2024 51 min
2024 Sydney Writers Festival: author Viet Thanh Nguyen on the dual identity of a Vietnamese refugee

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At the 2024 Sydney Writers Festival, author Viet Thanh Nguyen is in conversation with Benjamin Law talking about his memoir, A Man of Two Faces. The book details the dual identity of a Vietnamese refugee growing up in North America. 

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