The Committed
$60.32
- Hardcover
368 pages
- Release Date
9 March 2021
Summary
‘Call The Committed many things. A white hot literary thriller disguised as a searing novel of ideas. An unflinching look at redemption and damnation. An unblinking examination of the dangers of belief, and the need to believe. A sequel that goes toe to toe with the original then surpasses it. A masterwork’ - Marlon James, Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings
The long-awaited new novel from one of America’s most highly regarded contemporary writers, The Com…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472152503 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472152506 |
| Author: | Viet Thanh Nguyen, Francois Chau |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Corsair |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 9 March 2021 |
| Weight: | 600g |
| Dimensions: | 238mm x 158mm x 38mm |
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Critics Review
The Committed is a rich and exhilarating story of friendship, loyalty, and greed. Set in 1980s Paris, it follows the characters from The Sympathizer as they try to fashion new lives among all the wretched of the earth. Viet Thanh Nguyen gives us an unsparing look at the poisonous effects of ideology - whether colonialism, communism, or capitalism - even as he explores the deep-seated need we all have to believe in something. A deep, compelling and humorous portrait of how we are shaped by fictions others have for us. - Laila Lalami, author of The Other Americans, finalist for the National Book Award
About The Author
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Viet Thanh Nguyen is the author of the short story collection The Refugees and the novel The Sympathizer. The Sympathizer is a New York Times best seller and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Other honors include the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction from the American Library Association, the First Novel Prize from the Center for Fiction, a Gold Medal in First Fiction from the California Book Awards, and the Asian/Pacific American Literature Award from the Asian/Pacific American Librarian Association. His other books are Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (a finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction) and Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America. He is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.
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