7/31/2023 0 Comments The committed viet thanh nguyen![]() ![]() Please report any comment that does not follow the rules and remember that mods have the final say. You can ask in our Weekly Recommendation Thread, consult our Suggested Reading or What to Read page, or post in /r/suggestmeabook. ![]() We don't allow personal recommendation posts. We also encourage discussion about developments in the book world and we have a flair system. We love original content and self-posts! Thoughts, discussion questions, epiphanies and interesting links about authors and their work. ![]() Please see extended rules for appropriate alternative subreddits, like /r/suggestmeabook, /r/whatsthatbook, etc. ‘Should I read …?’, ‘What’s that book?’ posts, sales links, piracy, plagiarism, low quality book lists, unmarked spoilers (instructions for spoiler tags are in the sidebar), sensationalist headlines, novelty accounts, low effort content. Promotional posts, comments & flairs, media-only posts, personalized recommendation requests incl. Please use a civil tone and assume good faith when entering a conversation. All posts must be directly book related, informative, and discussion focused. If you're looking for help with a personal book recommendation, consult our Suggested Reading page or ask in: /r/suggestmeabook Quick Rules:ĭo not post shallow content. It is our intent and purpose to foster and encourage in-depth discussion about all things related to books, authors, genres or publishing in a safe, supportive environment. Subreddit Rules - Message the mods - Related Subs AMA Info The FAQ The Wiki Join in the Weekly "What Are You Reading?" Thread!. ![]() Check out the Weekly Recommendation Thread.Reprinted with permission of the publisher, Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, Inc. Let's just hope France is better than America.Įxcerpted from "The Committed" © 2021 Viet Thanh Nguyen. Was the third time the charm, as the Americans liked to say? Bon sighed before he pulled his airline-provided sleeping mask over his eyes. Stepping out of the airplane, we were gripped by a sense of relief, for we had reached asylum, the fever dream of all refugees, especially those rendered refugees not just once or twice but three times: 1954, nine years after I was born 1975, when I was young and reasonably handsome and 1979, just two years ago. We, Bon and I, arrived in the airport at night on a flight from Jakarta. I assumed this name in anticipation of coming here to Paris, or, as our French masters taught us to call it, the City of Light. I could tell you the name I have in my passport, VO DANH. Yes, I admit it! I am not just one but two. What was a man with two minds except a mutant? Perhaps even a monster. With two minds, I am able to see any issue from both sides, and while I once flattered myself that this was a talent, now I understand it to be a curse. I am also still a man of two faces and two minds, one of which might perhaps yet still be intact. This must make me a ghostwriter, and as such, it is a simple, if spooky, matter to dip my pen into the ink flowing from my twin holes, one drilled by myself, the other by Bon, my best friend and blood brother. What a peculiar condition, being dead yet penning these lines in my little room in Paradise. How can I not be, with two holes in my head from which leaks the black ink in which I am writing these words. I may no longer be a spy or a sleeper, but I am most definitely a spook. In "The Committed" (Grove Press), a sequel to the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Sympathizer," author Viet Thanh Nguyen follows his communist spy protagonist as he arrives in 1980s Paris to take up a new persona: drug dealer. ![]()
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