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Tabish Khair

    Tabish Khair è un autore che esplora le intricate relazioni tra culture e identità. Le sue opere approfondiscono spesso temi come la migrazione, l'alienazione e la ricerca di casa. Lo stile di Khair è caratterizzato da un linguaggio poetico e da incisivi ritratti psicologici dei personaggi. La sua scrittura offre profonde intuizioni sull'esperienza umana sullo sfondo di un mondo globalizzato.

    How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position
    • CAN THE GLASS EVER REALLY BE MORE THAN HALF-FULL? A young Pakistani academic relives his days sharing a cramped apartment in Aarhus, Denmark, with two unlikely bedfellows. They are Ravi, his incorrigible best friend and a wry observer of the human condition; and Karim, their fundamentalist Muslim landlord, whose apparent double life soon intrigues his tenants. While Ravi finds his jaded world outlook challenged when he falls for an unlikely Danish girl, and our narrator embarks upon a complicated love affair of his own, Karim's bizarre and secretive behaviour leads to creeping suspicions that something might, indeed, be rotten in the state of Denmark . . . By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position is a sparkling account of strangers in strange lands, told with wit and humanity.

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