- New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, psychological, Fiction, suspense
"The astonishing sequel to The Sympathizer, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, 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.
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Contemporary, grave, classical in form and meticulous.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Viet Thanh Nguyen
- First published
- 2021
- Pages
- 384
- Publisher
- Grove Press, Little, Brown Book Group Limited, Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781713619253
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“We were the unwanted, the unneeded, and the unseen, invisible to all but ourselves.”
Viet Thanh Nguyen (born March 13, 1971) is a Vietnamese-American novelist. He is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. Nguyen's debut novel, *The Sympathizer*, won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction among other accolades, including the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction from the American Library Association, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel from an American Author from the Mystery Writers of America, and the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature in Fiction from the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Associ
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