Osama
- Synopsis
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Lavie Tidhar was in Dar-es-Salaam during the American embassy bombings in 1998, and stayed in the same hotel as the Al Qaeda operatives in Nairobi. Since then he and his now-wife have narrowly avoided both the 2005 King's Cross and 2004 Sinai attacks--experiences that led first to his memorable short story "My Travels with Al-Qaeda" and later to the creation of Osama.In a world without global terrorism Joe, a private detective, is hired by a mysterious woman to find a man: the obscure author of pulp fiction novels featuring one Osama Bin Laden: Vigilante...WINNER OF THE 2012 WORLD FANTASY AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL."An awesome book, dark, twisty alt-universe terrorist noir" - Lauren Beukes, author of Zoo City"Bears comparison with the best of Philip K Dick's paranoid, alternate-history fantasies. It's beautifully written and undeniably powerful." - The Financial Times"Not a writer to mess around with half measures...brings to mind Philip K Dick's seminal science fiction novel The Man in the High Castle." - The Guardian"A strange, melancholy and moving refl ection, torquing politics with the fantastic, and vice virtuosically versa." - bestselling author China MiƩville"The author is young, ambitious, skilled and original. Osama is an ingenious inversion of modern history...excellent, evocative and atmospheric." - bestselling author Christopher Priest"Intensely moving." - Interzone
- Copyright:
- 2011
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781936535774
- Publisher:
- Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
- Date of Addition:
- 06/19/16
- Copyrighted By:
- Lavie Tidhar
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
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English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
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History,
Literature and Fiction,
Mystery and Thrillers,
Science Fiction and Fantasy
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
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This is a copyrighted book.