Phil in SF quoted The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
A profound, startling, and beautifully crafted debut novel, The Sympathizer is the story of a …
His task: save the prelapsarian Montagnards of a bucolic hamlet perched on the border of wild Laos.
— The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen (32%)
new vocabulary: prelapsarian
( literary) of the time before the Fall of Man; innocent and unspoilt