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The committed : a novel / Viet Thanh Nguyen.

by Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971-

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Grove Press, 2021.

Brothers -- Fiction.

Drug traffic -- Fiction.

Racism -- Fiction.

Refugees -- Fiction.

Paris (France) -- Fiction.

9780802157065 (hc.)

xiii, 345 p. ; 24 cm.

Sequel to: The sympathizer.

Includes bibliographical references.

"The Committed follows the "man of two minds" as he comes to 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 re-education 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. 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."--Publisher.

Psychological fiction.

Suspense fiction.

Literary fiction.

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