{"id":47712,"date":"2021-01-18T11:12:43","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T16:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=47712"},"modified":"2021-01-15T14:44:50","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T19:44:50","slug":"the-committed-by-viet-thanh-nguyen-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-committed-by-viet-thanh-nguyen-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"The Committed by Vi\u1ec7t Thanh Nguy\u1ec5n [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-47718\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/01\/Committed-Viet-Thanh-Nguyen-BookDragon-529x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/01\/Committed-Viet-Thanh-Nguyen-BookDragon-529x800.jpg 529w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/01\/Committed-Viet-Thanh-Nguyen-BookDragon.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 529px) 100vw, 529px\" \/>Six years since his first novel, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-sympathizer-by-viet-nguyen-author-interview-in-bloom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Sympathizer<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0won the Carnegie Medal and the Pulitzer Prize, Vi\u1ec7t Thanh Nguy\u1ec5n is back with the much-anticipated second installment in a planned trilogy. Here, the same unreliable narrator adds another few hundred pages to the already 367-page confession he keeps in the false bottom of his leather duffel. Our anti-hero manages to record his French exploits since living in Paris with his blood-brother Bon, convincing whoever asks that he\u2019s in France to experience his (priest-who-impregnated-his-teen-housekeeper) father\u2019s homeland.<\/p>\n<p>At 37, he has survived senseless war, double spying for both the Communists and the CIA, tortuous reeducation, and refugee camps, to land on the couch of an aunt who isn\u2019t his relative, while working in an Asian restaurant with less-than-toothsome fare<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>and supplying intellectuals with mind-altering substances. Working for the Boss almost gets him killed, but the retaliatory violence just leaves him feeling highly conflicted.<\/p>\n<p>Undeniably erudite and culturally fluent as ever \u2013 interweaving history, philosophy, political treatise, theology, even literary criticism \u2013 Nguy\u1ec5n effortlessly enhances the story with snarky commentary, sly judgments, and plenty of wink-wink-nod-nod posturing to entertain <em>committed\u00a0<\/em>readers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/The-Committed-\/pid=9739337\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;Fiction,&#8221; <em>Booklist<\/em>, January 1 &amp; 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six years since his first novel, The Sympathizer,\u00a0won the Carnegie Medal and the Pulitzer Prize, Vi\u1ec7t Thanh Nguy\u1ec5n is back with the much-anticipated second installment in a planned trilogy. 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