The Committed by Nguyen, Viet Thanh
The Committed by Nguyen, Viet Thanh

The Committed

The sequel to The Sympathizer, which won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and went on to...
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Author: Viet Thanh Nguyen
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The Committed by Nguyen, Viet Thanh

The Committed

$54.82
The Committed by Nguyen, Viet Thanh

The Committed

$54.82
Author: Viet Thanh Nguyen
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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The sequel to The Sympathizer, which won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and went on to sell over a million copies worldwide, The Committed tells the story of "the man of two minds" as he comes as a refugee to France and turns his hand to capitalism.

The long-awaited new novel from one of America's most highly regarded contemporary writers, The Committed follows the unnamed Sympathizer as he arrives in Paris in the early 1980s with his blood brother Bon. The pair try to overcome their pasts and ensure their futures by engaging in capitalism in one of its purest forms: drug dealing.

Traumatized by his reeducation at the hands of his former best friend, Man, and struggling to assimilate into French culture, the Sympathizer finds Paris both seductive and disturbing. As he falls in with a group of left-wing intellectuals whom he meets at dinner parties given by his French Vietnamese "aunt," he finds stimulation for his mind but also customers for his narcotic merchandise. But the new life he is making has perils he has not foreseen, whether the self-torture of addiction, the authoritarianism of a state locked in a colonial mindset, or the seeming paradox of how to reunite his two closest friends whose worldviews put them in absolute opposition. The Sympathizer will need all his wits, resourcefulness, and moral flexibility if he is to prevail.

Both literary thriller and novel of ideas, The Committed is a blistering portrayal of commitment and betrayal that will cement Viet Thanh Nguyen's position in the firmament of American letters.



Author: Viet Thanh Nguyen
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 03/02/2021
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.18lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.50w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780802157065


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 05/01/2020 pg. 86
Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2020
Booklist 01/01/2021 pg. 33
Publishers Weekly 01/25/2021
Shelf Awareness 03/02/2021

About the Author
Viet Thanh Nguyen was born in Vietnam and raised in America. He is the author of The Sympathizer, which was awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction alongside seven other prizes. He is also the author of the short story collection The Refugees, the nonfiction book Nothing Ever Dies, a finalist for the National Book Award, and is the editor of an anthology of refugee writing, The Displaced. He is the Aerol Arnold Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California and a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur foundations. He lives in Los Angeles.
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