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Mystery/Thriller Book Review: The House of Ashes by Stuart Neville Soho Crime, $27 95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-61695-741-4

Mystery/Thriller Book Review: The House of Ashes by Stuart Neville Soho Crime, $27 95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-61695-741-4
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The Committed : Viet Thanh Nguyen writes unreliable narrators because he is one, too

In one of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s earliest memories, he is on a boat leaving Saigon. It was 1975, and he and his family had been turned away from the airport and the American Embassy but eventually got on a barge, then a ship. He can’t remember anything about the escape, other than soldiers on their ship firing at refugees who were approaching in a smaller boat. The Committed, by Viet Thanh Nguyen 345 pages GROVE PRESS It is Nguyen’s only childhood memory from Vietnam, and he isn’t sure if it really happened or if it came from something he read in a history book. To him, whether he personally witnessed the shooting doesn’t matter.

The Committed : Viet Thanh Nguyen writes unreliable narrators because he is one, too

The Committed : Viet Thanh Nguyen writes unreliable narrators because he is one, too
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He Writes Unreliable Narrators Because He Is One, Too

In one of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s earliest memories, he is on a boat leaving Saigon. It was 1975, and he and his family had been turned away from the airport and the American embassy but eventually got on a barge, then a ship. He can’t remember anything about the escape, other than soldiers on their ship firing at refugees who were approaching in a smaller boat. It is Nguyen’s only childhood memory from Vietnam, and he isn’t sure if it really happened or if it came from something he read in a history book. To him, whether he personally witnessed the shooting doesn’t matter.

Fiction Book Review: The Committed by Viet Thanh Nguyen Grove, $27 (368p) ISBN 978-0-8021-5706-5

Bookshop The sequel to Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize–winning The Sympathizer is an exhilarating roller-coaster ride filled with violence, hidden identity, and meditations on whether the colonized can ever be free. The fractured, guilt-ridden narrator, a veteran of the South Vietnamese Army, where he was a mole for the communists, goes by his assumed name Vo Danh, which means “nameless.” He has survived reeducation and a refugee camp and is now living in early 1980s Paris, along with his devoutly anti-communist “blood brother,” Bon, who doesn’t know he was a double agent. Vo Danh starts selling hashish for a Viet-Chinese drug lord called the Boss, whom he and Bon met in their refugee camp. The gig has him more vexed about the crime of capitalism than that of drug dealing, and he’s not expecting a turf war. Indeed, he’s chagrined to discover his rivals, French Arabs who share with him a legacy of colonization, want him dead. Meanwhile, th

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