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""Set during the haunting, last days of the Vietnam War, The Interpreter is a nuanced and beautifully written portrait of the inner life of a war correspondent and his unforgettable Vietnamese interpreter."" -- ""David Ignatius, author of Phantom Orbit"" ""A powerful story of trust, suspicion, loss, and survival, set in the waning days of the Vietnam War and the ensuing years of Communist rule. Shipler's vivid writing allows you to taste the breakfast pho and walk through the chaotic traffic of Saigon. His main characters--a world-wise Vietnamese interpreter and the earnest American journalist who employs him--could hold their own in Graham Greene's The Quiet American."" -- ""John Darnton, Pulitzer Prize winning correspondent and author of Burning Sky"" ""To understand what happened in the American War in Vietnam, you must read The Interpreter."" -- ""Le Ly Hayslip, author of When Heaven and Earth Changed Places""

""A powerful story of trust, suspicion, loss, and survival...Shipler's vivid writing allows you to taste the breakfast pho and walk through the chaotic traffic of Saigon. His main characters...could hold their own in Graham Greene's The Quiet American."" -- ""John Darnton, Pulitzer Prize winning correspondent and author of Burning Sky"" ""To understand what happened in the American war in Vietnam, you must read The Interpreter."" -- ""Le Ly Hayslip, author of When Heaven and Earth Changed Places"" ""Set during the haunting, last days of the Vietnam War, The Interpreter is a nuanced and beautifully written portrait of the inner life of a war correspondent and his unforgettable Vietnamese interpreter."" -- ""David Ignatius, author of Phantom Orbit""

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David K. Shipler won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction for Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land. Among his other eight books are the bestsellers The Working Poor: Invisible in America and Russia: Broken Idols, Solemn Dreams. He was a foreign correspondent of The New York Times in Saigon, Moscow, and Jerusalem, and chief diplomatic correspondent in Washington. Quyen Ngo has previously worked as an on-air radio host, a DJ, and a reporter. After her time in commercial radio, she founded a podcast focused on telling stories from and about Vietnam. She works with reporters in both story development and tracking/voice in Los Angeles.

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