In 2015, Viet Thanh Nguyen published his first novel, "The Sympathizer," about a communist spy who flees Vietnam after the Fall of Saigon and leads a double life in America. That fantastic novel won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

Now, Nguyen is back with a sequel called "The Committed." It picks up with the next chapter in the life of a conflicted spy who's remade himself yet again, this time to work for a brutal crime boss in Paris.

"The Committed" is a violent, often comic, deeply philosophical novel about the lasting wreckage of colonialism. 

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