{"product_id":"the-committed","title":"The Committed","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Committed\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eViet Thanh Nguyen\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780802157072\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eGrove Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2022\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReprint\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe sequel to \u003ci\u003eThe Sympathizer\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and went on to sell over a million copies worldwide, \u003ci\u003eThe Committed\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of \"the man of two minds\" as he comes as a refugee to France and turns his hand to capitalism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe long-awaited follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize-winning \u003ci\u003eThe Sympathizer\u003c\/i\u003e, which has sold more than one million copies worldwide, \u003ci\u003eThe Committed\u003c\/i\u003e follows the man of two minds as he arrives in Paris in the early 1980s with his blood brother Bon. The pair try to overcome their pasts and ensure their futures by engaging in capitalism in one of its purest forms: drug dealing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTraumatized by his reeducation at the hands of his former best friend, Man, and struggling to assimilate into French culture, the Sympathizer finds Paris both seductive and disturbing. As he falls in with a group of left-wing intellectuals whom he meets at dinner parties given by his French Vietnamese \"aunt,\" he finds stimulation for his mind but also customers for his narcotic merchandise. But the new life he is making has perils he has not foreseen, whether the self-torture of addiction, the authoritarianism of a state locked in a colonial mindset, or the seeming paradox of how to reunite his two closest friends whose worldviews put them in absolute opposition. The Sympathizer will need all his wits, resourcefulness, and moral flexibility if he is to prevail.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoth highly suspenseful and existential, \u003ci\u003eThe Committed\u003c\/i\u003e is a blistering portrayal of commitment and betrayal that will cement Viet Thanh Nguyen's position in the firmament of American letters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Grove Press","offers":[{"title":"The Committed | Viet Thanh Nguyen | Paperback | 9780802157072 | New | Fiction 1401203","offer_id":48162644000920,"sku":"1401203","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/712IUEUmQZL.jpg?v=1771872570","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/the-committed","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}