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- 340pagine
- 12 ore di lettura
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A distraught woman writes a letter to Osama bin Laden after her four-year-old son and her husband are killed in a massive suicide bomb attack at a soccer match in London. She tries to convince Osama to abandon his terror campaign by revealing to him the desperate sadness - "I am a woman built on the wreckage of myself"--And the broken heart of a working-class life blown apart. But the bombing is only the beginning. While security measures transform London into a virtual occupied territory, the narrator, too, finds herself under siege. At first she gains strength by fighting back, taking a civilian job with the police to aid the antiterrorist effort. But when she becomes involved with an upper-class couple, she is drawn into a psychological maelstrom of guilt, ambition, and cynicism that erodes her faith in the society she's working to defend. And when a new bomb threat sends the city into a deadly panic she is pushed to acts of unfathomable desperation - perhaps her only chance for survival.
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Incendiary, Chris Cleave
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 2009
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- Titolo
- Incendiary
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Chris Cleave
- Editore
- Sceptre
- Pubblicato
- 2009
- Formato
- In brossura
- Pagine
- 340
- ISBN10
- 0340998482
- ISBN13
- 9780340998489
- Serie
- Tag
- Narrativa, Letteratura romantica, Famiglia, Narrativa contemporanea, Romance contemporaneo, Omicidi, Morte, Inghilterra, Sessualità e intimità, Gran Bretagna, Londra, Lutto, Lettere, Mamme, Terrorismo, Crudeltà, terrore, Attacco
- Prima pubblicazione
- 2005
- Titolo originale
- Incendiary
- Valutazione
- 3,6 su 5
- Descrizione
- A distraught woman writes a letter to Osama bin Laden after her four-year-old son and her husband are killed in a massive suicide bomb attack at a soccer match in London. She tries to convince Osama to abandon his terror campaign by revealing to him the desperate sadness - "I am a woman built on the wreckage of myself"--And the broken heart of a working-class life blown apart. But the bombing is only the beginning. While security measures transform London into a virtual occupied territory, the narrator, too, finds herself under siege. At first she gains strength by fighting back, taking a civilian job with the police to aid the antiterrorist effort. But when she becomes involved with an upper-class couple, she is drawn into a psychological maelstrom of guilt, ambition, and cynicism that erodes her faith in the society she's working to defend. And when a new bomb threat sends the city into a deadly panic she is pushed to acts of unfathomable desperation - perhaps her only chance for survival.