![]() ![]() As with The Sympathizer, Vo’s motivation to protect his best friend, Bon, from discovering his communist identity serves as the primary tension that heightens throughout the novel. Bon hates communists and doesn’t know that both Vo and Man were communist spies. ![]() Instead, most people call the sympathizer by his nickname, Crazy Bastard, because he’s become, understandably, unhinged. Now, the narrator goes under the alias Vo Danh however, it’s that alias which is rarely used. In The Committed, the faceless commissar Man exiles his blood brothers, Bon and our sympathizer, from Vietnam to Paris. When we last saw the unnamed sympathizer, he had been dispatched from an intense episode of torture. Such is the case in The Committed, Viet Thanh Nguyen’s thrilling sequel to his Pulitzer Prize winning debut novel, The Sympathizer. In a great novel, they react and change with their conditions. It’s easy to feel like you really know a character after reading a confessional novel. ![]()
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