Dark at the Crossing - Couverture souple

Ackerman, Elliot

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1907970959 ISBN 13 : 9781907970955

Editeur : Daunt Books, 2017

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

'Infused with profound knowledge, empathy, and chutzpah . . . Hauntingly evocative and beautiful.' Elif Shafak

Haris Abadi is a man in search of a cause. An Iraqi who received US citizenship in exchange for translating during the war, he and his sister relocate to Michigan. His sister graduates university and becomes engaged, while Haris works menial jobs and grows increasingly restless. Instead of attending his sister's wedding, he flies to Gaziantep to join the Free Army's fight against Bashar al-Assad.

But he's caught and robbed trying to enter Syria, and is taken in by a refugee couple Amir, a former revolutionary, and Daphne, a sophisticated woman haunted by grief. After discovering they had to flee Syria without their young daughter and that Daphne is desperate to return, Haris's choices become ever more wrenching: Whose side is he really on? Is he a true radical or simply an idealist? What is he really searching for?

Dark at the Crossing is a trenchantly observed novel of raw urgency and compassion that explores loss, second chances, and why we choose to believe.

'Ackerman has created people who are not the equivalents of the locally exotic subjects in your average NPR story, and has used them to populate a fascinating and topical novel.' -- New York Times Book Review

'What emerges in this novel is a dark and compelling theory of war from someone who knows it intimately.' -- Wall Street Journal

'One of the most essential books of 2017.' --Esquire

'Ackerman's eye for detail grounds this novel in a space that quickly transports readers into a world few Americans know...Dark at the Crossing is not only a fictional meditation on remorse, betrayal, love and loss, but also a journey that returns us to the beautiful and broken world we live in.' -- Washington Post

'A romance for our time. Idealist Haris Abadi, desperate to cross the Turkish border into Syria, becomes waylaid en route. As Haris gets entangled with a couple haunted by conflict, the novel's beauty cracks open.' --Vanity Fair (Books to Cap the Obama Era)

'A thriller, psychological fiction, political intrigue, and even a love story all wrapped into a stunningly realistic and sometimes horrifying package.' --Library Journal (starred)

'Timely . . . Former Marine and current Middle East scholar Ackerman explores territory familiar to him but uncharted to most of us. Ackerman humanizes a war fraught with tragedy and seemingly without resolution.' --Kirkus Reviews

'Beautifully written, and the setting is superb. Dark at the Crossing makes a significant contribution to the literature of war.' -- Booklist (starred)

'One of the most potent and original writers to emerge from that elite platoon of men and women who, since 9/11, have laid down their guns to pick up a pen. A unique and bittersweet blessing of raw grace and naked, bleeding empathy.' -- Bob Shacochis

'Elliot Ackerman's slow-build, atmospheric, and profoundly compassionate novel offers an unexpected and unique perspective on the most volatile conflict zone of the present day. Richly detailed and told with the force of first-hand experience, Dark at the Crossing is a courageous and vital work.' --Greg Baxter

Biographie de l'auteur :

ELLIOT ACKERMAN, author of the critically acclaimed novel Green on Blue, is based out of Istanbul, where he has covered the Syrian Civil War since 2013. His writings have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New Republic, and The New York Times Magazine, among other publications, and his stories have been included in The Best American Short Stories. He is both a former White House Fellow and Marine, and served five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan where he received the Silver Star, the Bronze Star for Valor, and the Purple Heart.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Daunt Books
• Date d'édition: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1907970959
• ISBN 13: 9781907970955
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272