The long-awaited sequel to the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Sympathizer (sponsored)

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The long-awaited sequel to the Pulitzer Prize-winning
The Sympathizer

“A voice that shakes the walls of the old literary comfort zone.”
—Jonathan Dee, The New Yorker

The long-awaited new novel from one of America’s most highly regarded contemporary writers, The Committed follows the unnamed Sympathizer as he arrives in Paris in the early 1980s with his blood brother Bon. The pair try to overcome their pasts and ensure their futures by engaging in capitalism in one of its purest forms: drug dealing.

Traumatized by his reeducation at the hands of his former best friend, Man, and struggling to assimilate into French culture, the Sympathizer finds Paris both seductive and disturbing. As he falls in with a group of left-wing intellectuals whom he meets at dinner parties given by his French Vietnamese “aunt,” he finds stimulation for his mind but also customers for his narcotic merchandise. But the new life he is making has perils he has not foreseen, whether the self-torture of addiction, the authoritarianism of a state locked in a colonial mindset, or the seeming paradox of how to reunite his two closest friends whose worldviews put them in absolute opposition. The Sympathizer will need all his wits, resourcefulness, and moral flexibility if he is to prevail.

Both literary thriller and 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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About the Author

Viet Thanh Nguyen was born in Vietnam and raised in America. He is the author of The Committed, which continues the story of The Sympathizer, awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, alongside seven other prizes. He is also the author of the short story collection The Refugees; the nonfiction book Nothing Ever Dies, a finalist for the National Book Award; and is the editor of an anthology of refugee writing, The Displaced. He is the Aerol Arnold Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California and a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur foundations. He lives in Los Angeles.

Catch Viet on Tour!

March 2 | San Francisco, CA
Bay Area Book Festival #Unbound, with City Lights
In conversation with Laila Lalami

March 4 | New York, NY
92nd Street Y
In conversation with RO Kwon

March 9 | St. Louis, MO
Left Bank Books
In conversation with Min Jin Lee

March 10 | Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles Times Book Club
In conversation with Carolina A. Miranda

March 11 | Washington, DC
Politics & Prose
In conversation with Tommy Orange

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