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True, there’s not as much dog crap on the streets of Saigon as in Paris, Vo Danh notes, but that’s because in Vietnam canines are lunch, not pets. Ma10:17 am ET Listen to article (7 minutes) The narrator of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Committed (Grove, 345 pages, 27) is a man without a country or a namewe know him by the pseudonym. His roiling, pox-on-both-their-houses cynicism often comes across like bits from a stand-up comedy routine (Paul Beatty’s masterly race satire “The Sellout” took a similar approach). Drug-pushing provides his initiation to the spoils of capitalism, though, ironically, his clients are all champagne Marxists prone to offering defenses of Pol Pot. In 'The Committed' (Grove Press), a sequel to the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel 'The Sympathizer,' author Viet Thanh Nguyen follows his communist spy protagonist as he arrives in 1980s. Vo Danh finds work scrubbing toilets at a restaurant that fronts for Paris’s Vietnamese mafia and soon graduates to dealing hash to his aunt’s upmarket comrades. Both highly suspenseful and existential, The Committed is a blistering portrayal of commitment and betrayal that will cement Viet Thanh Nguyen’s position in the firmament of American letters. How does he cope with the psychological schism? Mostly by ranting about the dark joke of his predicament. 04, 2021 Books Author, Viet Thanh Nguyen Photo by Bebe Jacobs Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses his new novel, The Committed, the follow-up to his Pulitzer-winning The Sympathizer, and the second entry in a planned trilogy. It is 1981 and Vo Danh is “still a man of two faces and two minds.” His best friend is a diehard anticommunist who knows nothing of his past in espionage his aunt is an assimilated French woman who presides over leftist intellectual circles Vo Danh himself hates his country’s former colonizers with a patriotic fervor, but he has to admit to a traitorous love for foie gras and Françoise Hardy. Viet Thanh Nguyen: The Committed Hosted by Michael Silverblatt Mar. verb (used without object), com·mit·ted, com·mit·ting.
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Since then, we learn in “The Committed,” he has fled by boat to a refugee camp in Indonesia and then traveled to Paris, his father’s native city. Join leading experts, senior management, and board directors inside the strategy room as they share their insights on how to break through inertia and. But when he reports back to Hanoi, he’s thought to be overly attached to the American way and is tortured and re-educated for his trouble. The narrator of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s “The Committed” (Grove, 345 pages, $27) is a man without a country or a name-we know him by the pseudonym Vo Danh, or “nameless.” When he was introduced in the 2016 Pulitzer Prize winner “The Sympathizer,” he was a communist spy dispatched to the United States to scupper the counterrevolutionary schemes of South Vietnamese emigrants. I could not attend as I already had another meeting to which I was already committed.
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