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The Committed Hardback - 2021

by Viet Thanh Nguyen

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This seller has earned a 3.78 of 5 Stars rating from internet customers.
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Readers lauded the novel’s propulsive voice and fierce, energetic prose, while acknowledging a few forgivable plot contrivances. They praised its mix of absurdist reflection and pulp momentum, and advised reading The Sympathizer first, though the sequel remains accessible.

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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.

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  • Title The Committed
  • Author Viet Thanh Nguyen
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Grove Press
  • Publication date 2021-03-02
  • Features Bibliography
  • ISBN 9780802157065 / 0802157068
  • Weight 1.18 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.5 x 1.4 in (23.11 x 16.51 x 3.56 cm)
  • Themes
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
    • Ethnic Orientation: French
    • Ethnic Orientation: Asian - Vietnamese
    • Event: Fall
    • Holiday: Veteran's Day
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Drug traffic
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2020057028
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.6

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Citations

  • Booklist, 01/01/2021, Page 33
  • Kirkus Reviews, 11/15/2020, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 05/01/2020, Page 86
  • Publishers Weekly, 01/25/2021, Page 0
  • Shelf Awareness, 03/02/2021, Page 0

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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