![]() The unnamed narrator and his friend Bon arrive in Paris after being “reeducated” in a camp back in Vietnam and are soon swept up by the heady existential ideas of French intellectual circles. ![]() Readers who want more of a good thing will be excited to dive into "The Committed" (Grove Press, 368 pp., ★★★ out of four), out Tuesday, which picks up after the events of the first novel. The story of a refugee turned spy somehow managed to be both penetrating and playful, philosophical and punk. It was nominally a thriller, but what captured imaginations was its startling exploration of the post-war political entanglements of Vietnam and the United States and how those entanglements played out in the psyche of one divided man. His first novel, "The Sympathizer," snapped up a host of literary awards in 2016, including the Pulitzer Prize. Viet Thanh Nguyen certainly knows how to debut well. ![]()
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