'_I am alone in the dark, turning the world around in my head as I
struggle through another bout of insomnia, another white night in the
great American wilderness._'
Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident in
his daughter's house in Vermont. When sleep refuses to come, he lies
in bed and tells himself stories, struggling to push back thoughts
about things he would rather forget - his wife's recent death and the
horrific murder, in Iraq, of his granddaughter's boyfriend, Titus.
Brill, a retired book critic, imagines a parallel world in which
America is not at war with Iraq but with itself. In this other America
the Twin Towers did not fall on 9/11, and the 2000 election results
led to secession, as state after state pulled away from the union and
a bloody civil war ensued. As the night progresses, Brill's story
grows increasingly intense, and what he is so desperately trying to
avoid insists on being told. Joined in the early hours by his
granddaughter, he gradually opens up to her and recounts another
hidden story, this time of his own marriage. After she falls asleep,
he at last finds the courage to revisit the trauma of Titus's death.
Passionate and shocking, political and personal: _Man in the Dark _is
a novel that reflects the consequences of 9/11, that forces us to
confront the blackness of night even as it celebrates the existence of
ordinary joys in a world capable of the most grotesque violence.
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ISBN
9780571246144
Publisert
2015
Utgiver
Vendor
Faber & Faber
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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