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'Call The Committed many things. A white hot literary thriller
disguised as a searing novel of ideas. An unflinching look at
redemption and damnation. An unblinking examination of the dangers
of belief, and the need to believe. A sequel that goes toe to toe
with the original then surpasses it. A masterwork' Marlon James,
Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings
The long-awaited new novel from one of America's most highly
regarded contemporary writers, The Committed follows the
Sympathizer as he arrives in 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, from the oppression of the state, to the self-torture of
addiction, to the seemingly unresolvable paradox of how he can
reunite his two closest friends, men whose worldviews put them in
absolute opposition. 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. 'Here it is, with perfect timing, a
novel that anyone who is part of a colonising or colonised nation -
and that includes, of course, America - should read . . . Nguyen is
a craftsman . . . And then there's the sharp humour . . . Like The
Sympathizer, it amounts to much more than the sum of its parts.
These two novels constitute a powerful challenge to an enduring
narrative of colonialism and neo-colonialism. One waits to see what
Nguyen, and the man of two faces, will do next' the Guardian 'If
The Sympathizer was ostensibly a spy novel, then The Committed is a
gangland thriller . . . Two contemporary classics for your bedside
table' The Telegraph, five star review
General
Imprint: |
Corsair
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
March 2021 |
Authors: |
Viet Thanh Nguyen
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Readers: |
Francois Chau
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Dimensions: |
238 x 158 x 38mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
368 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4721-5250-3 |
Categories: |
Books >
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General
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LSN: |
1-4721-5250-6 |
Barcode: |
9781472152503 |
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