EAN: 9781472152534

THE COMMITTED - VIET THANH NGUYEN KARTONIERT (TB)

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.

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