The Committed – Viet Thanh Nguyen
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Name: The Committed – Viet Thanh Nguyen
Format: epub
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Book:
Title: The Committed
Author: Viet Thanh Nguyen
Language: angielski
Year: 2021
Subjects: Fiction, Literature, Mystery, Thriller
Publisher: Grove Atlantic
ISBN: 9780802157065
Total pages: N/A
Description:
The long-awaited new novel from one of America’s most highly regarded contemporary writers, 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…
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