<p>The long-awaited new novel from one of America's most highly regarded contemporary writers, <i>The Committed</i> 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 close
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<p><b>The highly original, blistering, and unconventional memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of <i>The Sympathizer</i>, which has now sold over one million copies worldwide</b><br><br>With insight, humour,...
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«Vet du hva jeg likte best med den tiden?» Han ristet på hodet. Vi satt i sofaen i kjellerkontoret, som var varmere enn stuen i november. «Etter bombingen gikk vi ut, og du holdt meg i hånden mens vi sto og blunket mot solen. Jeg likte så godt at...
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The Refugees is a collection of perfectly formed stories written over a period of twenty years, exploring questions of immigration, identity, love, and family. <br/>In The Refugees, Viet Thanh Nguyen gives voice to lives led between two worlds,...
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