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Viet Thanh Nguyen follows Pulitzer winning 'The Sympathizer' with 'The Committed'
Viet Thanh Nguyen follows Pulitzer winning 'The Sympathizer' with 'The Committed'
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Length:
8 minutes
Released:
Apr 7, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Viet Thanh Nguyen's novel The Committed follows the same unnamed character we met in his Pulitzer-winning thriller, The Sympathizer. The character is now in Paris; having become disillusioned with the revolution he was a part of when we last saw him, he hasn't given up on the idea entirely. Nguyen told NPR's Scott Simon the book is also about colonization: He "wanted it to be set in a Paris that was not the tourist Paris or the romantic Paris. [It's] a novel about French ideas and French Revolution and French colonialism, but it's also a crime thriller set in these immigrant neighborhoods."
Released:
Apr 7, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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