“Daring, dazzling . . . A tough, funny, heart-breaking book” by
the National Book Award–nominated author of An Unnecessary Woman
(The Seattle Times). Detailing the impact of the AIDS epidemic in
America and the Lebanese civil war in Beirut on a circle of friends
and their families during the 1980s and 1990s, this “absolutely
brilliant” novel mines the chaos of contemporary experience, telling
the stories of characters who can no longer love or think except in
fragments (Amy Tan). Clips and quips, vignettes and hallucinations,
tragic news reports and hilarious short plays, conversations with both
the quick and the dead, all shine their combined lights to reveal the
way we experience life today in the debut novel of the author Michael
Chabon calls “one of our most daring writers.” “A
provocative, emotionally searing series of connected
vignettes . . . For a nonlinear novel the images chosen retain a
remarkable cohesion. Often sexually frank or jarringly violent, they
merge into a graphic portrait of two cultures torn from the inside.”
—Publishers Weekly “[A] refreshing statement of honesty and
endurance . . . Funny, brave, full of heart and willing to say
things about war and disease, sexual and cultural politics that have
rarely been said so boldly or directly before.” —The Oregonian
“Rabih Alameddine is one rare writer who not only breaks our hearts
but gives every broken piece a new life.” —Yiyun Li
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ISBN
9780802190970
Publisert
2015
Utgiver
Vendor
Grove Press (ORIM)
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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