The Committed
First edition cover
AuthorViet Thanh Nguyen
Audio read byFrancois Chau[1]
Cover artistChristopher Moisan[2]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre
Set inParis in the 1980s
PublisherGrove Press
Publication date
March 2, 2021
Media typePrint (hardback), e-book, audiobook
Pages368
ISBN978-0-8021-5706-5 (hardcover)
OCLC1224586967
813/.6
LC ClassPS3614.G97 C66 2021
Preceded byThe Sympathizer 

The Committed is a 2021 novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen. It is his second novel and the sequel to his debut novel The Sympathizer (2015), which sold over one million copies and was awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The Committed was published by Grove Press on March 2, 2021.[3]

Plot

The novel is about a man who refers to himself as "Nameless" in Vietnamese, "Vo Danh," and arrives in Paris after having been tortured by Communists. Vo Danh dislikes being called a "boat person".[4]

Reception

The Committed received favorable reviews, with a cumulative "Positive" rating at the review aggregator website Book Marks.[5] In its starred review, Kirkus Reviews wrote, "Nguyen is deft at balancing his hero's existential despair with the lurid glow of a crime saga."[6] Publishers Weekly, in its starred review, praised "the narrator’s hair-raising escapes, descriptions of the Boss's hokey bar, and thoughtful references to Fanon and Césaire."[7] The New York Times praised the first hundred pages of The Committed as "better than anything in the first novel," while regarding the second half as, "shaggy, shaggy, shaggy."[8]

References

  1. ↑ "The Committed (Audiobook) by Viet Thanh Nguyen". Audible (store).
  2. ↑ Temple, Emily (March 31, 2021). "The 19 Best Book Covers of March". Literary Hub. Retrieved August 24, 2023.
  3. ↑ "The Committed". Grove Atlantic. Retrieved February 24, 2021.
  4. ↑ Alter, Alexandra (2021-02-01). "He Writes Unreliable Narrators Because He Is One, Too". The New York Times. Retrieved 2023-06-25.
  5. ↑ "The Committed". Book Marks. Retrieved February 24, 2021.
  6. ↑ "The Committed by Viet Thanh Nguyen". Kirkus Reviews. October 27, 2020. Retrieved February 24, 2021.
  7. ↑ "Fiction Book Review: The Committed by Viet Thanh Nguyen". Publishers Weekly. January 6, 2021. Retrieved February 24, 2021.
  8. ↑ "Viet Thanh Nguyen Packs Plenty of Action and Outrage Into 'The Committed'". The New York Times. February 22, 2021. Retrieved March 7, 2021.


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