by Viet Thanh Nguyen · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9781472152534
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«The Committed» is the literary fiction and suspense novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen, published in hardcover in 2022 (368 pages, in English).
The narrator, the Sympathizer, arrives in Paris as a refugee with his blood brother Bon and gets involved in drug trafficking. Among left-wing intellectuals and the Vietnamese community, he will carry the aftermath of his re-education, state pressure, and the challenge of reconciling two friends with opposing views.
The novel is the second installment of The Sympathizer series and winner of the California Book Award in its Fiction Silver category.
For readers of literary fiction and thrillers with historical background, especially those following The Sympathizer series.
Viet Thanh Nguyen is a South Vietnamese-born American professor and novelist. He is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.
