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Listen to Viet Nguyen in conversation about The Committed on Poured Over: The B&N Podcast

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This thrilling follow-up to Viet Thanh Nguyen's 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Sympathizer finds tortured and guilt-ridden former Vietnamese spy-turned-sleeper agent Vo Danh and his Blood Brother, Bon, living as refugees in 1980’s Paris. A story of obligation and assimilation, they try to build a new life for themselves selling for a drug lord they met at their refugee camp. Driven by money, drugs and geopolitics, The Committed is a master class in hidden identity and narrative voice, capturing a fractured mind and the instability of post-colonial life.

The sequel to The Sympathizer, which won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and went on to sell over a million copies worldwide, The Committed tells the story of “the man of two minds” as he comes as a refugee to France and turns his hand to capitalism.

The long-awaited new novel from one of America’s most highly regarded contemporary writers, The Committed follows the unnamed Sympathizer as he arrives in Paris in the early 1980s with his blood brother Bon. The pair try to overcome their pa...