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"Follows the "man of two minds" as he comes to 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 re-education 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. Both literary thriller and brilliant novel of ideas, The Committed is a blistering portrayal of commitment and betrayal."--
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The Committed, Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Jazyk
- Rok vydania
- 2021
- Väzba
- (mäkká)
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- Titul
- The Committed
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autori
- Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Vydavateľ
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Rok vydania
- 2021
- Väzba
- mäkká
- ISBN10
- 1472152514
- ISBN13
- 9781472152510
- Série
- Štítky
- Beletria, Detektívky & Thriller, Historické romány, Detektívky, Francúzsko, Spoločenské romány
- Hodnotenie
- 3,95 z 5
- Anotácia
- "Follows the "man of two minds" as he comes to 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 re-education 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. Both literary thriller and brilliant novel of ideas, The Committed is a blistering portrayal of commitment and betrayal."--