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In an alternate world without global terrorism Joe, a private detective, is hired by a mysterious woman to find a man: the obscure author of pulp fiction novels featuring one Osama Bin Laden: Vigilante... Joe's quest to find the man takes him across the world, from the backwaters of Asia to the European Capitals of Paris and London, and as the mystery deepens around him there is one question he is trying hard not to ask: who is he, really, and how much of the books are fiction? Chased by unknown assailants, Joe s identity slowly fragments as he discovers the shadowy world of the refugees, ghostly entities haunting the world in which he lives. Where do they come from? And what do they want? Joe knows how the story should end, but even he is not ready for the truths he ll find in New York and, finally, on top a quiet hill above Kabul nor for the choice he will at last have to make.... WINNER OF THE 2012 WORLD FANTASY AWARD.
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The author of Osama is young, ambitious, skilled and original. Osama is an ingenious inversion of modern history: Osama bin Laden is the central character in a string of pulp novels allegedly written by one Mike Longschott. The terrorist crimes exist, in this novel, in a different realm...excellent, evocative and atmospheric. --Christopher Priest - Award-winning novelist and author of The Prestige
'An awesome book, dark, twisty alt-universe terrorist noir.' --Lauren Beukes, bestselling author of Zoo City
'Bears comparison with the best of Philip K Dick's paranoid alternate-history fantasies. It's beautifully written and undeniably powerful.' --Financial Times
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'An awesome book, dark, twisty alt-universe terrorist noir.' --Lauren Beukes, bestselling author of Zoo City
'Bears comparison with the best of Philip K Dick's paranoid alternate-history fantasies. It's beautifully written and undeniably powerful.' --Financial Times
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. He is the author of many novels, including the Bookman trilogy and is a prolific short story writer.
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- PublisherREBCA
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1781080763
- ISBN 13 9781781080764
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages384
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