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Osama

✍ Scribed by Lavie Tidhar


Publisher
Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
Year
2012
Tongue
English
Weight
132 KB
Category
Fiction

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✦ Synopsis


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 attacksβ€”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...


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