Al-Tounsi
定價：593 元
NT $ 593
- 作者：Anton，Piatigorsky
- 出版社：Amer Bar Assn
- 出版日期：2017-03-01
- 語言：英文
- ISBN10：1634256093
- ISBN13：9781634256094
- 裝訂：平裝 / 15.9 x 23.5 x 2.5 cm / 普通級
Al-Tounsi is the debut novel by the award-winning playwright, Anton Piatigorsky, and tells the story of the US Supreme Court’s handling of a landmark
case involving the rights of detainees held in a US military base. Although the novel follows the case as it maneuvers through the minds and hands of the Justices—the larger-than-life Killian
Quinn in the throes of a dangerous affair, the ambitious but insecure Gideon Rosen desperate to make his mark on history, the famed feminist Sarah Kolmann staring down the prospect of losing
her husband to cancer--it is ultimately shepherded by one Justice in particular, Rodney Sykes, who begins the novel in emotional crisis. After his wife’s sudden death a year earlier, his
relationship with Cassandra, his grown daughter, is in tatters, and he feels unable to repair it. As news of Cassandra’s affair with her boss, a prominent circuit court Judge, comes to light,
Rodney confronts his own repression and demons, and gradually allows his private life to influence his legal reasoning.
Al-Tounsi explores in detail how the personal stories and life dramas, career rivalries and political sympathies of these titans blend with their philosophies to create the most important legal
decisions of our time.
