Ours is a century of fear. Governments and mass media bombard us with words and images: desert radicals, "rogue states," jihadists, WMDs, existential enemies of freedom. We labor beneath myths that neither address nor describe the present situation, monstrous deceptions produced by a sound bite society. There is no reckoning of actuality, no understanding of the individual lives that inaugurated this echo chamber.In the summer of 1999, Mohamed Atta defended a master's thesis that critiqued the introduction of Western-style skyscrapers in the Middle East and called for the return of the "Islamic-Oriental city." Using this as a departure point, Jarett Kobek's novel ATTA offers a fictionalized psychedelic biography of Mohamed Atta that circles around a simple question: what if 9/11 was as much a matter of architectural criticism as religious terrorism? Following the development of a socially awkward boy into one of history's great villains, Kobek demonstrates the need for a new understanding of global terrorism. Joined in this volume by a second work, "The Whitman of Tikrit"--a radical reimagining of Saddam Hussein's last day before capture--ATTA is a brutal, relentless, and ultimately fearless corrective to ten years of propaganda and pandering.
-
Scarpia
$630 -
The Hope Factory
$525 -
Another Brooklyn
$525 -
Wolf on a String
$1,400 -
All the Light We Cannot See
$595 -
Down the Long Hills
$210 -
Pharaoh
$350 -
Under Paris Skies
$525 -
Summer of No Surrender
$700 -
The Princes of Ireland
$280 -
The Devil’s Queen: A Novel of Catherine De Medici
$875 -
Forest of the Hanged
$523 -
My Last Empress
$525 -
HHhH
$560 -
Pagan
$523 -
Across the Great Rift
$630 -
The Season of Open Water
$525 -
Murder in Morningside Heights
$280 -
Ualalapi: Fragments from the End of Empire
$698 -
Eagle and Empire
$1,050