To Save and to Destroy Writing as an Other

VIET THANH NGUYEN

Harvard University Press

The Committed

GROVE PRESS

The Refugees

The Sympathizer A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)

Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Published in conjunction with the exhibition originated by Bellevue Arts Museum, A Tapestry of Memories: The Art of Dinh Q. Lê is a fully illustrated, 88-page color catalog featuring twenty-four pieces from the first major survey on the photographic and conceptual work of American-Vietnamese artist Dinh Q. Lê.  Lê s tapestries and video installations reveal a two-decade-long introspective journey in which the artist has brought his vision to bear on the dislocation and cultural displacement he experienced, first in fleeing his homeland, then with his immersion in American culture, and ultimately upon the return to his estranged and yet familiar country. Through his art, Lê has sought to negotiate the differing perspectives he holds Vietnamese, American-Vietnamese, and American on Vietnam, the Vietnam War, and his place in the two societies in which he finds both belonging and alienation.  Featured in this publication are three essays: A Tapestry of Memories by the curator of the exhibition Stefano Catalani; Impossible to Forget, Difficult to Remember: Vietnam and the Art of Dinh Q. Lê by Viet Thanh Nguyen, professor of English and American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California; and;The Obdurate History of Mot Coi Di Ve (Spending One's Life Trying To Return Home); by Moira Roth, Trefethen Professor of Art History at Mills College and internationally recognized contemporary art historian. Also included is a in-depth interview with the artist by Stefano Catalani.

A Tapestry of Memories: The Art of Dinh Q. Le

Stefano Catalani

Michael Monroe

Moira Roth

Dinh Q. Le

Arts & Photography

Bellevue Arts Museum

Thirty acclaimed writers of international fiction explore the stranger in tales of cultural clashes and bonds. These stories of disparate experience travel beyond politics and multicultural manners to become an essential discussion of otherness.
Contributors include Nathan Englander, Laila Lalami, Ana Menendez, Josip Novakovich, Wanda Coleman, Tony d'Souza, Samrat Upadhyay, Mary Yukari Waters, Luis Alfaro, and Amanda Eyre Ward, as well as other accomplished writers from Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Iran, Israel, Pakistan, and Zimbabwe, some published for the first time in the United States.

A Stranger Among Us: Stories of Cross Cultural Collision and Connection

Literature & Fiction

Josip Novakovich

Ana Menéndez

LAILA LALAMI

Rashad Majid

Carolyn Alessio

Diane Lefer

Various, Authors

United States

OV Books

'Call The Committed many things. A white hot literary thriller disguised as a searing novel of ideas. An unflinching look at redemption and damnation. An unblinking examination of the dangers of belief, and the need to believe. A sequel that goes toe to toe with the original then surpasses it. A masterwork' Marlon James, Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven KillingsThe long-awaited new novel from one of America's most highly regarded contemporary writers, The Committed follows the Sympathizer as he arrives in Paris as a refugee. There he and his blood brother Bon try to escape their pasts and prepare for their futures by turning their hands to capitalism in one of its purest forms: drug dealing. No longer in physical danger, but still inwardly tortured by his reeducation at the hands of his former best friend, and struggling to assimilate into a dominant culture, the Sympathizer is both charmed and disturbed by Paris. As he falls in with a group of left-wing intellectuals and politicians who frequent dinner parties given by his French Vietnamese "aunt," he finds not just stimulation for his mind but also customers for his merchandise - but the new life he is making has dangers he has not foreseen, from the oppression of the state, to the self-torture of addiction, to the seemingly unresolvable paradox of how he can reunite his two closest friends, men whose worldviews put them in absolute opposition.Both literary thriller and brilliant novel of ideas, The Committed is a blistering portrayal of commitment and betrayal that will cement Viet Thanh Nguyen's position in the firmament of American letters.

Contemporary

Corsair

The long-awaited new novel from one of America’s most highly regarded contemporary writers, The Committed follows the Sympathizer as he arrives in Paris as a refugee. There he and his blood brother Bon try to escape their pasts and prepare for their futures by turning their hands to capitalism in one of its purest forms: drug dealing. No longer in physical danger, but still inwardly tortured by his reeducation at the hands of his former best friend, and struggling to assimilate into a dominant culture, the Sympathizer is both charmed and disturbed by Paris. As he falls in with a group of left-wing intellectuals and politicians who frequent dinner parties given by his French Vietnamese “aunt,” he finds not just stimulation for his mind but also customers for his merchandise―but the new life he is making has dangers he has not foreseen, from the oppression of the state, to the self-torture of addiction, to the seemingly unresolvable paradox of how he can reunite his two closest friends, men whose worldviews put them in absolute opposition.\nBoth literary thriller and brilliant novel of ideas, The Committed is a blistering portrayal of commitment and betrayal that will cement Viet Thanh Nguyen’s position in the firmament of American letters

Genre Fiction

Refugees

Little, Brown Book Group Limited

Literary

Constable Robinson

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