“过去50年来，在世界范围内遭到杀害的女孩，比整个20世纪死于所有战争的男性还要多。仅仅因为她们的性别。”
在普利策新闻奖得主尼可拉斯·D.克里斯多夫和雪莉·邓恩夫妇这对有丰富联合报道经验的记者伉俪的带领下，我们在本书中去亚非拉国家做了一次长途冒险旅行。在那里，我们看到性别歧视、性暴力、厌女价值观、家庭暴力、处女情结等现象，让女性犹如仍置身在18、19世纪的炼狱。我们也看到那里的女性进行了艰苦卓绝的抗争，以及如何一点小小的帮助就能改变她们的命运。
通过这些故事，作者向我们展示了女性的生存困境，整个世界对此困境的态度，以及女性身上自我觉醒的力量。她们将绝望化为希望，勇敢争取生命尊严。
本书以人物故事为线索，佐以大量的数据，没有局限于对女性遭遇的报道，还展示了社会、经济、文化、心理等多维度的思考。同时，本书也为那些想为世界尽一份力的人们提供了切实可行的参考。

A profound, startling, and beautifully crafted debut novel, The Sympathizer is the story of a man of two minds, someone whose political beliefs clash with his individual loyalties.
It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be given passage aboard the last flights out of the country. The general and his compatriots start a new life in Los Angeles, unaware that one among their number, the captain, is secretly observing and reporting on the group to a higher-up in the Viet Cong. The Sympathizer is the story of this captain: a man brought up by an absent French father and a poor Vietnamese mother, a man who went to university in America, but returned to Vietnam to fight for the Communist cause. A gripping spy novel, an astute exploration of extreme politics, and a moving love story, The Sympathizer explores a life between two worlds and examines the legacy of the Vietnam War in literature, film, and the wars we fight today.