The submission

av Amy Waldman (forfatter).

Random House 2011 Heftet

Gjennomsnittlig terningkast: 4.33 (3 terningkast.)

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En jury har fått i oppdrag å velge et minnesmerke som skal reises for å hedre ofrene for et terroristangrep. Etter at de har foretatt valget, får de vite at mannen som står bak vinnerforslaget er amerikansk muslim. Dette utløser en debatt rundt sorg, kunst og islam. Både pårørende, journalister, politikere og jurymedlemmer lar sine emosjoner få utløp i kampen for sitt syn på hvordan en nasjon skal minnes og prøve å forstå en tragedie.

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Ten years after 9/11, a dazzling, kaleidoscopic novel reimagines its aftermath A jury gathers in Manhattan to select a memorial for the victims of a devastating terrorist attack. Their fraught deliberations complete, the jurors open the envelope containing the anonymous winner's name-and discover he is an American Muslim. Instantly they are cast into roiling debate about the claims of grief, the ambiguities of art, and the meaning of Islam. Their conflicted response is only a preamble to the country's. The memorial's designer is an enigmatic, ambitious architect named Mohammad Khan. His fiercest defender on the jury is its sole widow, the self-possessed and mediagenic Claire Burwell. But when the news of his selection leaks to the press, she finds herself under pressure from outraged family members and in collision with hungry journalists, wary activists, opportunistic politicians, fellow jurors, and Khan himself-as unknowable as he is gifted. In the fight for both advantage and their ideals, all will bring the emotional weight of their own histories to bear on the urgent question of how to remember, and understand, a national tragedy. In this deeply humane novel, the breadth of Amy Waldman's cast of characters is matched by her startling ability to conjure their perspectives. A striking portrait of a fractured city striving to make itself whole, The Submission is a piercing and resonant novel by an important new talent.

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Forlag Random House

Utgivelsesår 2011

Format Heftet

ISBN13 9780434019335

EAN 9780434019335

Omtalt sted USA

Språk Engelsk

Utgave 1

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