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A Door in the Earth

Autor Amy Waldman
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 oct 2020
From the bestselling author of The Submission A young Afghan-American woman is trapped between her ideals and the complicated truth in this "penetrating" (O, Oprah Magazine), "stealthily suspenseful," (Booklist, starred review), "breathtaking and achingly nuanced" (Kirkus, starred review) novel.

Parveen Shams, a college senior in search of a calling, feels pulled between her charismatic and mercurial anthropology professor and the comfortable but predictable Afghan-American community in her Northern California hometown. When she discovers a bestselling book called Mother Afghanistan, a memoir by humanitarian Gideon Crane that has become a bible for American engagement in the country, she is inspired. Galvanized by Crane's experience, Parveen travels to a remote village in the land of her birth to join the work of his charitable foundation.

When she arrives, however, Crane's maternity clinic, while grandly equipped, is mostly unstaffed. The villagers do not exhibit the gratitude she expected to receive. And Crane's memoir appears to be littered with mistakes, or outright fabrications. As the reasons for Parveen's pilgrimage crumble beneath her, the U.S. military, also drawn by Crane's book, turns up to pave the solde road to the village, bringing the war in their wake. When a fatal ambush occurs, Parveen must decide whether her loyalties lie with the villagers or the soldiers -- and she must determine her own relationship to the truth.

Amy Waldman, who reported from Afghanistan for the New York Times after 9/11, has created a taut, propulsive novel about power, perspective, and idealism, brushing aside the dust of America's longest-standing war to reveal the complicated truths beneath. A Door in the Earth is the rarest of books, one that helps us understand living history through poignant characters and unforgettable storytelling.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780316451567
ISBN-10: 0316451568
Pagini: 388
Dimensiuni: 137 x 205 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: Hachette Book Group
Colecția Back Bay Books

Notă biografică

Amy Waldman's first novel,The Submission, won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and an American Book Award and was named a Finalist for the PEN/ Hemingway Award. It wasEntertainment Weekly's #1 Novel for the Year, Esquire's Book of the Year, one of NPR's Top Ten Novels of the Year, and aNew York TimesandWashington PostNotable Book of the Year. In the UK, it was a finalist forThe GuardianFirst Book Award and was long-listed for the Orange Prize. Waldman has been the South Asia Bureau Chief forThe New York Timesand a national correspondent forThe Atlantic. She graduated from Yale University and has been a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and at the American Academy in Berlin. She lives with her family in Brooklyn.


Recenzii

"Amy Waldman brings her fierce intelligence and breathtaking descriptive powers to bear in this brilliant, unsentimental novel about what happens when Americans go adventuring abroad. The author's vast experience in the region is evident in the vividness with which she creates the social world of an Aghan mountain village. But the miracle ofA Door in the Earthis that a novel which tackles such urgent and necessary questions of politics, history, and the compromises of war can also be so unflaggingly searing and gripping, and bring its characters so indelibly to life."—Nell Freudenberger, Whiting and PEN/Malamud Award-winning author of The Newlyweds
"WithA Door in the Earth, Amy Waldman more than confirms the great talent that she showed in her first novel,The Submission.A Door in the Earthplays on true events in Afghanistan -- a country Waldman knows well from her career as a journalist -- but wholly reimagines them in a way that raises urgent questions about the ethics of 'saving' people we don't know. I haven't read anything more acute about the consequences of good American intentions sent abroad. Waldman's moral vision, spare and unsparing prose style, and feel for the way history upsets settled lives all makeA Door in the Earthone of the essential books of the post-9/11 era."—George Packer, National Book Award winner for The Unwinding
Praise for THE SUBMISSION:

"Affecting...Nervy and absorbing...Writing in limber, detailed prose, Waldman has created a choral novel with a big historical backdrop and pointillist emotional detail...It is Ms. Waldman's ability to depict grief and anger that lendsThe Submissionits extraordinary emotional ballast."—Michiko Kakutani,New York Times
"A masterful debut...Dazzlingly crafted...Waldman unspools her story with the truth-bound grit of a seasoned journalist and the elegance of a born novelist."—Leah Greenblatt,Entertainment Weekly
"Moving...Eloquent...A coherent, timely, and fascinating examination of a grieving America's relationship with itself."—Chris Cleave,Washington Post
"Elegantly written and tightly plotted...In these unnerving times, in which Waldman has seen facts take the shape of her fiction, a historian's novel at once lucid, illuminating and entertaining is a necessary and valuable gift."—Claire Messud,The New York Times Book Review

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For readers of Cutting for Stone and The Reluctant Fundamentalist comes a new novel from the author of the national bestseller The Submission about the journey of a young Afghan-American woman trapped between her ideals and the complicated truth.