Inhalt: 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 follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Sympathizer, which has sold more than one million copies worldwide, The Committed 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.
Traumatized 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.
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. Schlagworte:80er Jahre, Achtziger Jahre, Drogenhandel, Paris, Spionage, Thriller, Trauma Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 345 Seiten, Abbildung Beteiligte:Nguyen, Viet Thanh Standort: Engl. Ngu ISBN: 978-0-8021-5706-5
Inhalt: Winner of the 2016 Andrew Carnegie Medal for excellence in fiction Winner of the Edgar award for best novel 2016 Winner of the 2015 Centre of fiction first novel prize Finalist for the 2016 Pen/Faulkner Award Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for fiction
The sympathizer is a blistering exploration of identity, politics and America, wrought in electric prose. The narrator, a Vietnamese army captain, is a man of divided loyalties, a half-French, half-Vietnamese communist sleeper agent in America after the end of the Vietnam War. A powerful story of love and friendship, and a gripping espionage novel, The sympathizer examines the legacy of the Vietnam War in literature, film and the wars we fight today. Schlagworte:80er Jahre, Achtziger Jahre, America, Amerika, Einwanderer, Immigrant, Kommunismus, Krimi, Politik, Pulitzerpreis, Spionage, Vietnam, Vietnamkrieg Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 499 Seiten Beteiligte:Nguyen, Viet Thanh Standort: Engl. Ngu ISBN: 978-1-4721-5136-0
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