Viet Thanh Nguyen on being Vietnamese and American

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English - March 29, 2024 20:05 - 35 minutes - 32.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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As a child watching the film Apocalypse Now, writer Viet Thanh Nguyen felt split in two - was he one of the Americans doing the killing or one of the Vietnamese being killed? "That moment really brought home to me this idea that stories don't only have the power to save us but that stories have the power to destroy us, as well," he tells Susie Ferguson.