{"version":"1.0","type":"link","provider_name":"Hardcover","provider_url":"https://hardcover.app","cache_age":86400,"title":"The Committed","url":"https://hardcover.app/books/the-committed","description":"\u0026quot;Follows the \u0026quot;man of two minds\u0026quot; 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 \u0026quot;aunt,\u0026quot; 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.\u0026quot;--","author_name":"Viet Thanh Nguyen","author_url":"https://hardcover.app/authors/viet-thanh-nguyen","thumbnail_url":"https://assets.hardcover.app/edition/18172489/10326406-L.jpg","thumbnail_width":331,"thumbnail_height":500}