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The committed / Viet Thanh Nguyen.

ISBN: 9780802157089
ISBN: 0802157084
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 345 pages) : illustrations
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2021.
Copyright: &copy;2021

Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971- (author.).

Summary:

The Committed follows the "man of two minds" as he comes to 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.