![]() ![]() This is a book for anyone who wants to think hard about the most difficult choices we face. The New Yorker magazine writer Elizabeth Kolbert has chronicled the planet's crises in such celebrated books as "Field Notes From a Catastrophe" and "The Sixth Extinction." Her new book is called "Under a White Sky," and it's a troubling examination of the elaborate and possibly futile efforts human beings are making to repair all the damage we're doing to the Earth, as though we're repainting the house while burning it down. "Klara and the Sun" by Kazuo Ishiguro (Knopf), in Hardcover, eBook and Audio formats, available March 2 via Amazon and Indiebound Both literary thriller and novel of ideas, The Committed is a blistering portrayal of commitment and betrayal that will cement Viet Thanh Nguyens position in. The strength of this novel is the same as that of its. Anticipation is why we come to a book, and joy is why we keep turning. The complicated relationships that develop offer a poignant exploration of faith, the nature of consciousness, and the future of humanity. There’s a reason that Nguyen has invited Céline into The Committed. The plot of 'The Committed' is action-packed with sex, drugs and violence, but those events don't characterize the essence of the book. This is a grand novel full of breathtaking and luminous insights and a pure joy to read. ![]() It solidifies what we already know-Viet Thanh Nguyen is a gifted storyteller. Both books are a literary gift to all of us lucky enough to read. ' The Committed is a wonderful successor to The Sympathizer, a splendid tapestry of a novel, full of dubious but richly realized characters. ![]() At the opening, a sensitive, solar-powered robot named Klara gets bought by a woman for her sickly teenage daughter. On a special bonus episode hosted by Editor-in-Chief Tom Beer, Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses his new novel, The Committed (Grove, March 2), a quirky intellectual crime novel that highlights the Vietnam War’s complex legacy (starred review). The Committed, by Viet Thanh Nguyen, is a continuation and companion book to The Sympathizer. ![]()
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