To request a galley please e-mail publicity@groveatlantic.com The Committed is the highly
anticipated sequel to The Sympathizer winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The
Sympathizer has sold over one million copies worldwide and was rapturously received by
reviewers who are eagerly awaiting this follow-up. Following on from the end of The
Sympathizer but standing alone for readers who have not read it The Committed explores power
the means of cultural production race and ethnicity betrayal friendship morality money
and love. Viet Thanh Nguyen is one of the most prominent and respected contemporary writers in
the United States. He is an op-ed contributor to three major newspapers: the New York Times
Washington Post and Los Angeles Times alongside TIME magazine and Literary Hub. With almost
40 000 followers on Twitter alone his profile is higher now than ever before and his major
public profile will ensure huge attention for this book. The Committed is set in Paris an
exciting new milieu for Nguyen. He spends part of each year in France and lived in Paris for a
year while writing this novel. Interweaving ideas from writers from Simone de Beauvoir to Franz
Fanon to Jean-Paul Sartre this novel inhabits a French leftist milieu centering around the
¿aunt in Paris¿ who was a minor character in The Sympathizer and who comes to the fore in this
novel. In addition to the Pulitzer The Sympathizer was awarded six other prizes: the Dayton
Literary Peace Prize the Edgar Award for Best First Novel the Andrew Carnegie Medal for
Excellence in Fiction the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize the California Book Awards
Gold Medal in First Fiction and the Asian Pacific American Literature Award from the American
Librarian Association. The novel was named to more than forty best books of the year lists.
Nguyen¿s nonfiction work has cemented his status as one of the United States¿ most highly
regarded public intellectuals writing on subjects from American history to politics to
refugeehood to cultural power. Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War was a finalist
for both the National Book Award in Nonfiction and the National Book Critic Circles Award and
The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives was named one of the ten best books of the year
by the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Nguyen¿s previous work of fiction the short story collection
The Refugees earned a career-assessing rave by Joyce Carol Oates in the New Yorker
appearances by Nguyen on Late Night with Seth Meyers and NPR¿s ¿All Things Considered ¿ and was
shortlisted for the Dublin IMPAC Literary award. Nguyen has been the recipient of fellowships
from the Guggenheim and MacArthur foundations and currently serves as university professor and
Aerol Arnold Chair of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern
California. His work has been translated into twenty-eight languages.
