The InterpreterAuthor(s): David K. Shipler\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Green City Books, United States\nImprint: Green City Books\nISBN-13: 9781963101072, 978-1963101072\nSynopsis\nTHE INTERPRETER\n\nPulitzer prize-winning author David K. Shiplers fictionalized story of a Vietnamese interpreter, based on his own experiences as a war correspondent, brings back the tensions within Vietnam during the war, focusing on a local with close ties to American journalists and politicians.\n\nThe Interpreter is based on the true story of a Vietnamese translator who is woundednot physicallyby a love of country too pure for the contaminated choices that confront him. Dragged by an inner search, he has wandered among the neat categories of allegiance imposed by Vietnams lifetime of warfare and foreign occupation.\n\nBut he fits into none of the available boxesnot Communist, not Government, not pro-American, nor any of the assortment of political dissidents who populate the shadowy warrens of Sai.