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Author Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971- author.

Title The committed / Viet Thanh Nguyen.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2021.
©2021

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Edition First edition.
Description 1 online resource (xiii, 345 pages) : illustrations
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-344).
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.
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Subject Boat people -- Fiction.
Boat people.
Genre/Form Fiction.
Subject Refugees -- Vietnam -- Fiction.
Refugees.
Vietnam.
Drug traffic -- Fiction.
Racism -- France -- Fiction.
Drug traffic.
France.
Intellectuals -- Fiction.
Racism.
Paris (France) -- Fiction.
Intellectuals.
FICTION / Thrillers / Espionage.
Drug addiction.
Drug dealers.
Vietnamese fiction.
France -- Paris.
Genre/Form Psychological fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Thrillers (Fiction)
Novels.
Novels.
Electronic books.
Suspense fiction.
Subject Racism.
Other Form: Print version: Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971- Committed. First edition. New York, NY : Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2021 9780802157065 (DLC) 2020057028 (OCoLC)1224586967
ISBN 9780802157089 (electronic book)
0802157084 (electronic book)
9780802157065 (hardcover)
0802157068 (hardcover)
Music No. EB00813258 Recorded Books