- Terrorism, Fiction, Fiction, alternative history, New York Times reviewed
Wonderful alternative history (flipping a real tragedy on its head) where fundamentalist Christians bomb towers in Baghdad, Iraq. Mustafa Baghdadi is part of homeland security team in Iraq w.
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Epic, plot-driven, contemporary and relentless.
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemporarynostalgic
- contemplativerelentless
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Matt Ruff
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 431
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers, Harper Perennial, HarperCollins
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780061976223
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