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The Submission
Amy Waldman
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Description for The Submission
Paperback. A jury gathers in Manhattan to select a memorial for the victims of a terrorist attack. Their fraught deliberations complete, the jurors open the envelope containing the winner's name - and discover he is an American Muslim. Instantly they are cast into roiling debate about the claims of grief, the ambiguities of art, and the meaning of Islam. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 197 x 26. Weight in Grams: 302.
A jury gathers in Manhattan to select a memorial for the victims of a devastating terrorist attack. Their fraught deliberations complete, the jurors open the envelope containing the anonymous winner's name – and discover he is an American Muslim. Instantly they are cast into roiling debate about the claims of grief, the ambiguities of art, and the meaning of Islam.
The memorial's designer is Mohammad Khan, an enigmatic, ambitious architect. His fiercest defender on the jury is its sole widow, the mediagenic Claire Burwell. But when the news of his selection leaks to the press, Claire finds herself ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cornerstone
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099528241
SKU
V9780099528241
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99-3
About Amy Waldman
Amy Waldman was co-chief of the South Asia bureau of The New York Times. Her fiction has appeared in The Atlantic and the Boston Review and is anthologized in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2010. She lives with her family in Brooklyn. This is her first novel.
Reviews for The Submission
Exceptional debut ... a tale of complexity and tension...Waldman's prose is almost always pitch-perfect ... The characters are wholly realised and believable as individuals, but they also stand in for stories and conflicts that go beyond their own lives.
Kamila Shamsie
Guardian, Book of the Week
From this coup de théâtre Waldman skilfully spins out an ever-widening ... Read more
Kamila Shamsie
Guardian, Book of the Week
From this coup de théâtre Waldman skilfully spins out an ever-widening ... Read more