A Door in the Earth
Autor Amy Waldmanen Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 oct 2020
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
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
"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
"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:
"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.
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.