The Committed

Resumen del libro

The Committed follows the Sympathizer as he arrives in 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, from the oppression of the state, to the self-torture of addiction, to the seemingly unresolvable paradox of how he can reunite his two closest friends, men whose worldviews put them in absolute opposition

Biografía del autor

Viet Thanh Nguyen (1971) nació en Vietnam y creció en Estados Unidos. Es el ganador del Premio Pulitzer de Ficción 2016 por la novela The Sympathizer. Es autor de los libros académicos Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War y Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America. Desde hace muchos años ejerce como crítico cultural para Los Angeles Times e imparte clases de Literatura Inglesa y American Studies and Ethnicity en la Universidad de Southern California. Es editor del blog Diacritics.org, centrado en el arte, la cultura y la política vietnamitas desde la diáspora . Vive en Los Ángeles.