![]() ![]() The highly suspenseful sequel to The Sympathizer, both literary thriller and brilliant novel of ideas, The Committed is a blistering portrayal of commitment and betrayal that will cement Viet Thanh Nguyen's position in the firmament of American letters. But this new life he's living has unforeseen dangers of oppression, addiction and the seemingly unresolvable paradox of reuniting his two closest friends, men whose world views stand them poles apart. Falling in with left-wing intellectuals and politicians at dinner parties held by his French Vietnamese "aunt", he finds customers for his merchandise as well as stimulation for his mind. The Chapter of St Cloud Marcus Attwater 3. No longer in physical danger, the Sympathizer is both charmed and disturbed by Paris. As a refugee, he and his blood brother Bon try to escape their turbulent pasts by turning their hands to capitalism in one of its purest forms: drug dealing. ![]() Other people had pictures of their family in the office. It had photos of the murder victim stuck to it with little magnets, and his name in a big red circle in the centre. ![]() ![]() Hilarious and subversive' Tommy Orange, New York Times bestselling author of There There - It's the early 1980s and the Sympathizer arrives in Paris. E-book 'Detective Inspector Collins stared at the whiteboard in his office. A masterwork' Marlon James, Booker Prize-winning author of a Brief History of Seven Killings 'Fierce and unrelentingly good. 'A voice that shakes the walls of the old literary comfort zone' New Yorker 'Goes toe to toe with the original then surpasses it. ![]()
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