Autor:
Verlag:
Penguin
Jahr:
2007
Seitenzahl:
184
ISBN:
9780143064244
Medium:
Taschenbuch
Sprache:
Englisch
Zustandsbeschreibung
Ungelesen mit leichten Lagerspuren am Umschlag (berieben, kleine Druckstellen, an Ecken und Kanten leicht bestoßen). Persönliche Widmung auf dem Schmutztitel.
Artikelbeschreibung
This novel was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2007.
At a cafe table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an American stranger. As dusk deepens to dark, he begins the tale that has brought him to this fateful meeting...
"Mohsin Hamid's exceptionally taut and gripping novel gently explores the fault lines between the American West and the Islamic East. ... a deeply suspenseful work, the sense of anticipation heightened by Hamid's wonderful use of restraint"
‘A brilliant book. With spooky restraint and masterful control, Hamid unpicks the underpinnings of the most recent episode of distrust between East and West."
At a cafe table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an American stranger. As dusk deepens to dark, he begins the tale that has brought him to this fateful meeting...
"Mohsin Hamid's exceptionally taut and gripping novel gently explores the fault lines between the American West and the Islamic East. ... a deeply suspenseful work, the sense of anticipation heightened by Hamid's wonderful use of restraint"
‘A brilliant book. With spooky restraint and masterful control, Hamid unpicks the underpinnings of the most recent episode of distrust between East and West."
Schlagworte
bestseller Man Booker Prize East West fundamentalism
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