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Viet Thanh Nguyen brings "The Committed" to the L.A. Times Book Club

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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.
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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 hi ....

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What to expect in Viet Thanh Nguyen's sequel to his Pulitzer-Prize winning 'The Sympathizer'

What to expect in Viet Thanh Nguyen s sequel to his Pulitzer-Prize winning The Sympathizer
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Viet Thanh Nguyen at home in Pasadena. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s debut novel “The Sympathizer” introduced readers to its unnamed protagonist, a half-Vietnamese, half-French communist double agent navigating life, love, loyalty and espionage in Los Angeles after the fall of Saigon.
In Nguyen’s sequel, “The Committed,” his narrator is “still a man of two faces and two minds.” But now he is also “a revolutionary without a revolution,” a refugee in 1980s Paris who is grappling with politics, ideologies, and himself. ....

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'The Committed' by Viet Thanh Nguyen: What to expect

Viet Thanh Nguyen’s debut novel “The Sympathizer” introduced readers to its unnamed protagonist, a half-Vietnamese, half-French communist double agent navigating life, love, loyalty and espionage in Los Angeles after the fall of Saigon.
In Nguyen’s sequel, “The Committed,” his narrator is “still a man of two faces and two minds.” But now he is also “a revolutionary without a revolution,” a refugee in 1980s Paris who is grappling with politics, ideologies, and himself.
“I wasn’t done with his story,” says Nguyen, who joins the Los Angeles Times Book Club on March 10. “I’m very cognizant of the fact that people read “The Sympathizer” as a Vietnam War novel and me as a Vietnamese American writing about the Vietnam War.” ....

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'The Committed': Viet Thanh Nguyen writes unreliable narrators because he is one, too

In one of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s earliest memories, he is on a boat leaving Saigon.
It was 1975, and he and his family had been turned away from the airport and the American Embassy but eventually got on a barge, then a ship. He can’t remember anything about the escape, other than soldiers on their ship firing at refugees who were approaching in a smaller boat.
The Committed, by Viet Thanh Nguyen
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It is Nguyen’s only childhood memory from Vietnam, and he isn’t sure if it really happened or if it came from something he read in a history book. To him, whether he personally witnessed the shooting doesn’t matter. ....

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'The Committed': Viet Thanh Nguyen writes unreliable narrators because he is one, too

'The Committed': Viet Thanh Nguyen writes unreliable narrators because he is one, too
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