In ‘the Committed,’ Viet Thanh Nguyen Continues His Pulitzer Prize-winning Story

By Ron Charles, Washington Post: Books
Mon, 02/22/2021 - 4:28am

The follow-up to “The Sympathizer” finds a former Vietnamese spy working as a drug dealer in Paris.

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