![]() And while it’s a universal question, its ideological implications prove especially challenging for Vietnamese Americans who came of age after the end of the Vietnam War. “What is to be done?” - the question that Nguyen poses in both novels - is a timeless inquiry into the forces that shape our moral worldview. The Committed also reiterates the ideas first articulated in The Sympathizer. ![]() From a satirical James Bond-esque spy story in The Sympathizer, the author shifts to James Baldwin’s intersectional politics in The Committed to address greed, prejudice, and violence. ![]() More intimate in setting than The Sympathizer’s transcontinental scope, The Committed employs the motif of organized crime as linkage between the various demimondes populated by disaffected Algerian immigrants, maternal Cambodian prostitutes, and nostalgic Vietnamese thugs all living in France. ![]()
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