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SoothingDisarray t1_iy3sfsi wrote

Check out The Sympathizer by Vietnamese-American professor Viet Thanh Nguyen. Amazing book.

It's more about post-colonialism and anti-racism, less about environmentalism/queerness.

Edit to add: His follow up, The Committed, continues the story in France, and is even more explicitly a post-colonialism story.

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Phat-et-ic OP t1_iy3swd5 wrote

Woah I think I recently accidentally bought the sequel to this! The Committed. Only when I started reading did I realise it was not the first part so I stopped. But definitely will look for The Sympathiser soon.

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SoothingDisarray t1_iy3vlab wrote

Ha! Yeah, you definitely need to read The Sympathizer first. The Sympathizer is a standalone/complete novel, but The Committed is very much a not-standalone continuation. It has constant references to the first book and very little handholding about it--by which I mean it doesn't waste time explaining what happened and expects you to remember. :D

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