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The Committed (Hardcover)
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The Committed (Hardcover)
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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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