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Funny and sad, satirical and humane, this novel tells the interlinked stories of three unforgettable men whose trajectories cross in Denmark: the flamboyant Ravi, the fundamentalist Karim, and the unnamed and pragmatic Pakistani narrator. As the unnamed narrator copes with his divorce, and Ravi despite his exterior of skeptical flamboyance falls deeply in love with a beautiful woman who is incapable of responding in kind, Karim, their landlord, goes on with his job as a taxi driver and his regular Friday Qur an sessions. But is he going on with something else? Who is Karim? And why does he disappear suddenly at times or receive mysterious phone calls? When a terrorist attack takes place in town, all three men find themselves embroiled in doubt, suspicion, and, perhaps, danger. In his novel set in contemporary times in the west, Khair combines generic elements from the crime thriller, the immigrant novel, the campus novel, and the young adult romance to comment deeply and movingly on our lives today. It is a gripping novel full of suspense, humor, love and unforgettable characters. An acerbic commentary on the times, How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position is also a bitter-sweet, spell-binding novel about love and life today.
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Tabish Khair is a poet, journalist, critic, educator and novelist. Shortlisted for the Encore Prize and the Crossword Award and winner of the All India Poetry Prize, he has been awarded academic fellowships and scholarships at various universities, including Copenhagen University, Jamia Milia Islamia University, Delhi University and the University of Cambridge. After about four years as a staff reporter in Delhi, Khair left for Copenhagen, Denmark, to do a PhD, which he completed in 2000. It was published as "Babu Fictions "and has since become one of the important secondary texts on Indian English fiction. In 2000, Khair also published a collection of poems, Where Parallel Lines Meet (Penguin), which is considered to be one of the most significant collections in recent years by an Indian writing in English. It included poems for which he had won the prestigious All India Poetry Prize.Khair s second novel "The Bus Stopped "was shortlisted for the Encore Award and his new novel, "The Thing about Thugs "has been shortlisted for the Hindu Best Fiction Prize. His other publications include the co-edited anthology, "Other Routes: 1500 Years of African and Asian Travel Writing "(2006) and the study, "The Gothic, Postcolonialism and Otherness "(2009).
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- EditorialINTERLINK PUB GROUP INC
- Año de publicación2013
- ISBN 10 156656946X
- ISBN 13 9781566569460
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How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position : A Novel
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