Osama
A Thriller, Alternate History, Fiction book. The English, he thought, had once conquered most of the known world, but their cooking...
Lavie Tidhar was in Dar-es-Salaam during the American embassy bombings in 1998, and stayed in the same hotel as the Al Qaeda operatives in Nairobi. Since then he and his now-wife have narrowly avoided both the 2005 London, King’s Cross and 2004 Sinai attacks—experiences that led to the creation of Osama. In an alternate world without global terrorism Joe, a private detective, is hired...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 304 pages
- ISBN: 9781781080757 / 1781080755
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Joe looked out of the window again. He had the feeling that outside the window there should have been hover-cars, men in trilby hats and jet packs, spider-webs of passageways spreading out of the distant tops of the towers. There should have been women in silver suits taking in a show at the tri-vids before indulging in a spot of lunch, the kind that came in three-course pills, great big subservient robots trailing behind them. Instead there was a brown man in overalls collecting rubbish with a long stick outside an adult cinema, and the cars were halted,... Books, he thought, were a sort of migratory bird. Here they rested a while, weary of their travels, before taking flight again, before moving, settling in another nest for a time. They seemed to him like a flock that had descended on these tables, pages fluttering like wings, and here they rested in the shade, enjoying the lull, knowing it would soon be time to go on their way again. Lavie Tidhar, Osama // The English, he thought, had once conquered most of the known world, but their cooking hadn't improved as a result. Lavie Tidhar, Osama //
Modernity, or post-modernity, or the difference, or whatever that thing we're in now is. Very precisely, very elegantly, theres an evocation of a stylized, graceful past, though the setting is nominally the present. A world of phone booths and opium dens, fedoras, travel agents, zippo lighters, Parisian cafes and London pubs populated... Wishing Terrorism Was Only FictionMany people have compared the novel Osama by Lavie Tidhar to books by Phillip K. Dick. It is similar in that the main characters come to realize that reality is not at all what it seems, and that there are those who would stop them from learning the truth. However, Osama is much more beautifully written,... Osama es la atrevida historia de un detective privado que un buen da recibe el encargo de encontrar a un popular escritor de novelas policacas, probablemente el libro que con ms ganas he esperado en lo que llevamos de temporada. Con un particular estilo atiborrado de silencios incmodos, gran dominio del lenguaje y una magnfica prosa...
