The committed / Viet Thanh Nguyen.
Series: Sympathizer. 2 | Nguyen, Viet Thanh, Sympathizer ; 2.Publication details: London, UK : Corsair, 2021.Description: xiii, 345 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781472152510 (paperback)
- 9781472152503 (hardcover)
- 813/.6 23
- Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | NGU | Sympathizer Bk.2 | Available | 062430 |
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.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author.