The committed / Viet Thanh Nguyen.

• "Follows the "man of two minds" as he comes to Paris as a refugee. There he and his blood brother Bon try to escape their pasts and prepare for their futures by turning their hands to capitalism in one of its purest forms: drug dealing. No longer in physical danger, but still inwardly tortured by his re-education at the hands of his former best friend, and struggling to assimilate into a dominant culture, the Sympathizer is both charmed and disturbed by Paris. As he falls in with a group of left-wing intellectuals and politicians who frequent dinner parties given by his French Vietnamese "aunt," he finds not just stimulation for his mind but also customers for his merchandise-but the new life he is making has dangers he has not foreseen. Both literary thriller and brilliant novel of ideas, The Committed is a blistering portrayal of commitment and betrayal."-- 

Ämnesord

Vietnamese fiction  -- France. (LCSH)

Racism  -- France -- Fiction. (LCSH)

Intellectuals  -- France -- Fiction. (LCSH)

Refugees  -- Vietnam -- Fiction. (LCSH)

Drug traffic  -- France -- Fiction. (LCSH)

Drug addicts  -- France -- Fiction. (LCSH)

Nineteen eighties  -- Fiction. (LCSH)

Drug addicts.  (fast)

Drug traffic.  (fast)

Intellectuals.  (fast)

Manners and customs.  (fast)

Nineteen eighties.  (fast)

Racism.  (fast)

Refugees.  (fast)

Vietnamese fiction.  (fast)

Paris (France)  -- Fiction. (LCSH)

France  -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction. (LCSH)

France.  (fast)

Vietnam.  (fast)

France  -- Paris. (fast)

1900-1999  (fast)

Genre

Fiction.  (fast)

Historical fiction.  (fast)

Psychological fiction.  (fast)

Psychological fiction.  (lcgft)

Historical fiction.  (lcgft)

Klassifikation

PS3614.G97 (LCC)

813/.6 (DDC)