He is the author of The Committed, which continues the story of The Sympathizer, awarded the. As the illegitimate child born from sexual abuse between a French priest and a Vietnamese woman, Vo Danh is a metaphor for the rape of Vietnam perpetrated by French colonialism. Viet Thanh Nguyen was born in Vietnam and raised in America.

They’re swept up, too, by more clear and present dangers: They begin working for a Vietnamese drug dealer locked in an escalating conflict with the local Algerians. In The Committed, Vo Danh immigrates to Paris in order to escape danger. 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. While Viet Thanh Nguyen’s new novel, The Committed, is a stand-alone story, it also furthers the intellectual evolution and emotional disintegration of a character from an earlier book. 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. With smoke-and-mirrors panache, The Committed - Viet Thanh Nguyens sequel to The Sympathizer - continues the travails of our Eurasian Ulysses, now relocated to France and self-identified as Vo Danh (which literally means 'Nameless'). 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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