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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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- Paperback Mar 8, 2022 | 9781472152534 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Trade Paperback Mar 9, 2021 | 9781472152510 | RRP $34.99 Buy Now
- Hardback Mar 9, 2021 | 9781472152503 | RRP $49.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Mar 4, 2021 | 9781472152527 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
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Corsair
- Paperback Mar 8, 2022 | 9781472152534 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Trade Paperback Mar 9, 2021 | 9781472152510 | RRP $34.99 Buy Now
- Hardback Mar 9, 2021 | 9781472152503 | RRP $49.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Mar 4, 2021 | 9781472152527 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
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Corsair
- Paperback Mar 8, 2022 | 9781472152534 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Trade Paperback Mar 9, 2021 | 9781472152510 | RRP $34.99 Buy Now
- Hardback Mar 9, 2021 | 9781472152503 | RRP $49.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Mar 4, 2021 | 9781472152527 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
The Committed is the long-awaited sequel to the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Sympathizer
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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Praise for The Committed
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The Committed is a rich and exhilarating story of friendship, loyalty, and greed. Set in 1980s Paris, it follows the characters from The Sympathizer as they try to fashion new lives among all the wretched of the earth. Viet Thanh Nguyen gives us an unsparing look at the poisonous effects of ideology - whether colonialism, communism, or capitalism - even as he explores the deep-seated need we all have to believe in something. A deep, compelling and humorous portrait of how we are shaped by fictions others have for us. - Laila Lalami, author of The Other Americans, finalist for the National Book Award
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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
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This follow-up to his seminal The Sympathizer is Nguyen at his most ambitious and bold. Fierce in tone, capacious, witty, sharp, and deeply researched, The Committed marks, not just a sequel to its groundbreaking predecessor, but a sum total accumulation of a life devoted to Vietnamese American history and scholarship. This novel, like all daring novels, is a Trojan Horse, whose hidden power is a treatise of global futurity in the aftermath of colonial conquest. It asks questions central both to Vietnamese everywhere - and to our very species: How do we live in the wake of seismic loss and betrayal? And, perhaps even more critically, How do we laugh? - Ocean Vuong, New York Times-bestselling author of On Earth We re Briefly Gorgeous
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An elegy to idealism, Orientalism, and existentialism in all its tragic forms, Nguyen's novel doesn't so much inhabit early eighties Paris, as it pulls the plug on the City of Light. Think of The Committed as the declaration of the 20th Arrondissement. A squatter's paradise for those with one foot in the grave and the other shoved halfway up Western civilization's ass. - Paul Beatty, author of the Man Booker prize-winning The Sellout
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Viet Thanh Nguyen is the author of the short story collection The Refugees and the novel The Sympathizer. The Sympathizer is a New York Times best seller and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Other honors include the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction from the American Library Association, the First Novel Prize from the Center for Fiction, a Gold Medal in First Fiction from the California Book Awards, and the Asian/Pacific American Literature Award from the Asian/Pacific American Librarian Association. His other books are Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (a finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction) and Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America. He is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.
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