The Committed (The Sympathizer #2)

by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Your father was a colonizer and a pedophile, which go hand in hand. Colonization is pedophilia. The paternal country rapes and molests its unfortunate pupils, all in the holy and hypocritical name of the civilizing mission!

Gangsters are the most honest people in the world because we know how the world works. We’re honest about being dishonest, and we’re no more dishonest than a Swiss banker, which is, to be fair, pretty dishonest. The Nazis loved the Swiss so much they didn’t invade them, and if the Nazis love you, you must be a piece of shit, not that there weren’t some fine Nazis, like the ones I met in the Foreign Legion.