The committed

Author

Viet Thanh Nguyen

Call Number

• FICTION NGUY (CEN, OSH)

Edition

First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.

Publication Information

New York : Grove Press, 2021.

Physical Description

xiii, 345 pages : illustration ; 24 cm

Summary

"The sequel to The Sympathizer, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, The Committed follows the 'man of two minds' as he comes to Paris as a refugee. There he and his blood brother Bon try to escape their pasts and prepare for their futures by turning their hands to capitalism in one of its purest forms: drug dealing. No longer in physical danger, but still inwardly tortured by his reeducation at the hands of his former best friend, and struggling to assimilate into a dominant culture, the Sympathizer is both charmed and disturbed by Paris. As he falls in with a group of left-wing intellectuals and politicians who frequent dinner parties given by his French Vietnamese 'aunt,' he finds not just stimulation for his mind but also customers for his merchandise-but the new life he is making has dangers he has not foreseen. Both literary thriller and brilliant 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"--