Print Author Viet Thanh Nguyen joined the Los Angeles Times Book Club to discuss “The Committed,” the sequel to his 2016 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, “The Sympathizer.” Nguyen was in conversation March 10 with Times columnist Carolina A. Miranda. The book talk is available for viewing on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Nguyen’s debut novel, “The Sympathizer,” introduced his unnamed protagonist, a half-Vietnamese, half-French communist double agent navigating life, love, loyalty and espionage in Los Angeles after the fall of Saigon. Author Viet Thanh Nguyen in conversation with Times columnist Carolina A. Miranda. (Los Angeles Times) Advertisement In the sequel, his narrator is “still a man of two faces and two minds.” But he is now also “a revolutionary without a revolution” as the story moves to Paris. Like “The Sympathizer,” “The Committed” strides genres. Nguyen’s literary thriller is part political novel, part historical novel and part comic novel.