{"id":8238,"date":"2021-03-06T18:27:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T02:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietnguyen.info\/?p=8238"},"modified":"2021-05-11T18:33:57","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T01:33:57","slug":"book-club-viet-thanh-nguyen-shares-his-new-spy-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietnguyen.info\/2021\/book-club-viet-thanh-nguyen-shares-his-new-spy-story","title":{"rendered":"Book Club: Viet Thanh Nguyen shares his new spy story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Viet Thanh Nguyen will share insights on The Committed for LA Times<\/a>‘ March Bookclub event. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen.
(Jay L. Clendenin \/ Los Angeles Times)
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Viet Thanh Nguyen\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0debut novel,\u00a0\u201cThe Sympathizer,\u201d\u00a0introduced us to the \u201cman of two faces and two minds,\u201d a double agent living in Los Angeles after the fall of Saigon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nguyen\u2019s anonymous spy returns this week in\u00a0\u201cThe Committed,\u201d\u00a0with a new life and adventures set in Paris. Gangsters, drug dealing, turf wars and shootouts propel hairpin plot twists in this sequel published Tuesday. But beneath the thriller lies an ambitious novel about history, politics and revolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI wasn\u2019t done with his story,\u201d Nguyen told writer <\/a>Agatha French<\/a><\/strong>. \u201cI\u2019m very cognizant of the fact that people read \u2018The Sympathizer\u2019 as a Vietnam War novel and me as a Vietnamese American writing about the Vietnam War.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sequel, he says, allowed him \u201cto expand upon what I\u2019ve always felt, which is that \u2018The Sympathizer\u2019 is not only a Vietnam War novel but a novel about race and colonialism.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nguyen, a USC professor and Pulitzer Prize winner, joins the\u00a0Los Angeles Times Book Club<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0March 10<\/strong>\u00a0for a conversation with Times culture columnist\u00a0Carolina A. Miranda<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book talk starts at 7 p.m. Pacific<\/strong> and will be livestreaming on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. Sign up on Eventbrite<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although \u201cThe Committed\u201d is a sequel, French notes, it doesn\u2019t read like one. \u201cI never had the sense that something was being \u2018recapped\u2019 in a heavy-handed way, but everything you really need to enjoy the story is on the page,\u201d she says. \u201cI obviously think everyone should read the first book first \u2014 it\u2019s so good, why wouldn\u2019t you? \u2014 but \u2018The Committed\u2019 really holds its own, and not just as a sequel.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Viet Thanh Nguyen will share insights on The Committed for LA Times‘ March Bookclub event. Viet Thanh Nguyen\u2019s\u00a0debut novel,\u00a0\u201cThe Sympathizer,\u201d\u00a0introduced us to the \u201cman of two faces and two minds,\u201d a double agent living in Los Angeles after the fall of Saigon. Nguyen\u2019s anonymous spy returns this week in\u00a0\u201cThe Committed,\u201d\u00a0with a new life and adventures […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":8239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nBook Club: Viet Thanh Nguyen shares his new spy story - Viet Thanh Nguyen<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/vietnguyen.info\/2021\/book-club-viet-thanh-nguyen-shares-his-new-spy-story\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"AshleyTran\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/vietnguyen.info\/2021\/book-club-viet-thanh-nguyen-shares-his-new-spy-story\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/vietnguyen.info\/2021\/book-club-viet-thanh-nguyen-shares-his-new-spy-story\",\"name\":\"Book Club: Viet Thanh Nguyen shares his new spy story - 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