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A Man of Two Faces

A Memoir, A History, A Memorial

by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Publication: First published 2023
ISBN: 9781472158826

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Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
2024

Shortlist
National Book Award for Nonfiction
2023

Longlist

Year-end lists

The New Yorker, best books of 2023 No. 103

Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2024 shortlist

Question 7

Richard Flanagan

Winner
Nuclear War

Annie Jacobsen
Revolusi

David Van Reybrouck
The Story of a Heart

Rachel Clarke
Wild Thing

Sue Prideaux

National Book Award for Nonfiction 2023 longlist

The Rediscovery of America

Ned Blackhawk

Winner
Fire Weather

John Vaillant
Liliana’s Invincible Summer

Cristina Rivera Garza
Ordinary Notes

Christina Sharpe
We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I

Raja Shehadeh
I Saw Death Coming

Kidada E. Williams

Same country and decade

United States · 2020s

A World Appears

Michael Pollan
Days of Love and Rage

Anand Gopal
Dodge City

Patrick deWitt
Dèy

Edwidge Danticat
John of John

Douglas Stuart
Kin

Tayari Jones

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