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First edition. |
Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 345 pages) : illustrations |
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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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Boat people -- Fiction.
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Boat people. |
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Fiction.
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Refugees -- Vietnam -- Fiction.
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Refugees. |
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Vietnam. |
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Drug traffic -- Fiction.
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Racism -- France -- Fiction.
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Drug traffic. |
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France. |
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Intellectuals -- Fiction.
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Racism. |
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Paris (France) -- Fiction.
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Intellectuals. |
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FICTION / Thrillers / Espionage. |
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Drug addiction. |
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Drug dealers. |
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Vietnamese fiction. |
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France -- Paris. |
Genre/Form |
Psychological fiction.
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Psychological fiction.
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Thrillers (Fiction)
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Thrillers (Fiction)
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Novels.
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Novels.
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Electronic books.
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Suspense fiction.
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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) |
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0802157084 (electronic book) |
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9780802157065 (hardcover) |
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0802157068 (hardcover) |
Music No. |
EB00813258 Recorded Books |
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