The Committed

Viet Thanh Nguyen

ISBN 10: 0802157068 / ISBN 13: 9780802157065

Published by Grove Press, 2021

About this Item

SIGNED. Stated First Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line ending in 1. Signed by Viet Thanh Nguyen on the publisher's bound-in page. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($27.00) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. The long-awaited follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Sympathizer", "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 world views put them in absolute opposition. The Sympathizer will need all his wits, resourcefulness, and moral flexibility if he is to prevail. Seller Inventory # 9092

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Committed

Publisher: Grove Press

Publication Date: 2021

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition