Summary

The Sympathizer has a dream in which Martin Luther King, Jr. and Le Duan, the successor to Ho Chi Minh, and have a conversation about their respective dreams. He awakes on the toilet in the disgusting bathroom of Delights of Asia. He begins having waking hallucinations of Sonny and the crapulent major, the two men he has killed. The Sympathizer reflects that his mother never haunts him. He thinks of the photograph of her that he carries in his wallet, and how she manages to be beautiful in it. The Sympathizer asks Sonny and the crapulent major if they have seen his mother in the afterlife, and they explain that the afterlife is disorganized and murky. The Sympathizer takes the fact that Beatles and Rolling Stones are not alongside Sonny and the crapulent major as evidence that he did not kill...