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"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 capi...
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Corsair,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: | 2021. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"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 re-education 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 give 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." -- jacket |
| Item Description: | Sequel to The Sympathizer, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction |
| Carrier Form: | xiii, 345 pages; 24 cm |
| ISBN: |
9781472152503 1472152506 |
| Index Number: | PS3614 |
| CLC: | I712.45 |
| Call Number: | I712.45/N576-11 |