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Montecore
the silence of the tiger
1st American ed.
by Jonas Hassen Khemiri
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At the start of this inventive novel, Abbas, a world-famous photographer and estranged father to a young novelist—also named Jonas Hassen Khemiri—is standing on a luxurious rooftop terrace in New York City. He is surrounded by rock stars, intellectuals, and political luminaries gathered to toast his fiftieth birthday. And yet how did Abbas, a dirt-poor Tunisian orphan and Swedish émigré, come to enjoy such success?
Jonas is fresh off the publication of his first novel when answers to this question come in the form of an unexpected e-mail from Kadir, a lifelong friend of Abbas and an effervescent storyteller with delightfully anarchic linguistic idiosyncrasies. The portrait Kadir paints of Abbas—from a voluntarily mute boy who suffers constant night terrors, to a soulful young charmer, to a Swedish immigrant and political exile—proves to be vastly different from Jonas’s view of his father. As the two jagged versions reconcile in Kadir and Jonas’s impassioned correspondence, we’re given a portrayal of a man that is at once tender and feverishly imagined.
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Family life, Fathers and sons, Fiction, Immigrants, Interracial marriage, photographers, swedish fiction, TunisiansPeople
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Montecore: the silence of the tiger
March 1, 2011, Alfred A. Knopf
Hardcover
in English
- 1st American ed.
0307270955 9780307270955
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Table of Contents
Prologue.
Part One.
1
Part Two.
61
Part Three.
103
Part Four.
185
Part Five.
223
Epilogue.
305
Edition Notes
This is a Borzoi Book.
Originally published by Norstedts, Stockholm.
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| July 31, 2014 | Edited by ImportBot | import new book |
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| September 3, 2012 | Edited by Alex Voytek | Added new cover |
| September 3, 2012 | Edited by Alex Voytek | Edited without comment. |
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