Last year, Vietnamese-American writer Viet Thanh Nguyen won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature for his novel The Sympathizer. While the book is being prepared for publication in Russia, the writer’s new collection, “Refugees,” has become a bestseller in the United States. Esquire translated and published one of his stories for the first time. “She marked the path from the bedroom to the toilet with fluorescent yellow tape so that the professor would not get lost at night, and on the toilet door, at eye level, she stuck a poster with the word “LET!” She also composed several instructions and strategically placed them around the house to remind the professor in what order he should dress, what to put in his pockets before leaving, and what times of day to eat. But it was not she, but her husband who called a locksmith and asked him to install bars on the windows. “You don’t want me to run away one night,” the professor said sadly, burying his forehead in the iron bars. “Yes, and I don’t want to.”