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The Pulitzer Prize winner will read from his long-awaited sequel,
The Committed, on April 12.
By
Margaret Carmel
4/9/2021 at 11:10am
Viet Thanh Nguyen isnât done flipping the script.Â
In 2016, the Vietnamese American author burst onto the literary scene with his debut, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel,Â
The Sympathizer. The book caught worldwide attention for its blend of literary fiction with a gripping spy story, set against the political intrigue of the Vietnam War. Its protagonist, who remains nameless, tells his story in the form of a forced confession of his acts as a Northern Vietnamese spy embedded with a South Vietnamese general.Â