The committed [electronic resource] / Viet Thanh Nguyen.
Record details
- Physical Description: 1 online resource
- Publisher: [United States] : Grove Atlantic, 2021.
- Distributor: Made available through hoopla
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Summary, etc.: | 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. |
System Details Note: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Boat people > Fiction. Refugees > Vietnam > Fiction. Drug traffic > Fiction. Racism > France > Fiction. Intellectuals > Fiction. Electronic books. Paris (France) > Fiction. |
Genre: | Suspense fiction. |
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