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The mirage

A mind-bending novel in which an alternate history of 9/11 and its aftermath uncovers startling truths about America and the Middle East 11/9/2001: Christian fundamentalists hijack four jetliners. They fly two into the Tigris & Euphrates World Trade Towers in Baghdad, and a third into the Arab Defense Ministry in Riyadh. The fourth plane, believed to be bound for Mecca, is brought down by its passengers. The United Arab States declares a War on Terror. Arabian and Persian troops invade the Eastern Seaboard and establish a Green Zone in Washington, D.C. . . . Summer, 2009: Arab Homeland Security agent Mustafa al Baghdadi interrogates a captured suicide bomber. The prisoner claims that the world they are living in is a mirage'in the real world, America is a superpower, and the Arab states are just a collection of "backward third-world countries." A search of the bomber's apartment turns up a copy of The New York Times, dated September 12, 2001, that appears to support his claim. Other captured terrorists have been telling the same story. The president wants answers, but Mustafa soon discovers he's not the only interested party. The gangster Saddam Hussein is conducting his own investigation. And the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee'a war hero named Osama bin Laden'will stop at nothing to hide the truth. As Mustafa and his colleagues venture deeper into the unsettling world of terrorism, politics, and espionage, they are confronted with questions without any rational answers, and the terrifying possibility that their world is not what it seems. Acclaimed novelist Matt Ruff has created a shadow world that is eerily recognizable but, at the same time, almost unimaginable. Gripping, subversive, and unexpectedly moving, The Mirage probes our deepest convictions and most arresting fears.

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  • "A mind-bending novel in which an alternate history of 9/11 and its aftermath uncovers startling truths about America and the Middle East 11/9/2001: Christian fundamentalists hijack four jetliners. They fly two into the Tigris & Euphrates World Trade Towers in Baghdad, and a third into the Arab Defense Ministry in Riyadh. The fourth plane, believed to be bound for Mecca, is brought down by its passengers. The United Arab States declares a War on Terror. Arabian and Persian troops invade the Eastern Seaboard and establish a Green Zone in Washington, D.C. . . . Summer, 2009: Arab Homeland Security agent Mustafa al Baghdadi interrogates a captured suicide bomber. The prisoner claims that the world they are living in is a mirage'in the real world, America is a superpower, and the Arab states are just a collection of "backward third-world countries." A search of the bomber's apartment turns up a copy of The New York Times, dated September 12, 2001, that appears to support his claim. Other captured terrorists have been telling the same story. The president wants answers, but Mustafa soon discovers he's not the only interested party. The gangster Saddam Hussein is conducting his own investigation. And the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee'a war hero named Osama bin Laden'will stop at nothing to hide the truth. As Mustafa and his colleagues venture deeper into the unsettling world of terrorism, politics, and espionage, they are confronted with questions without any rational answers, and the terrifying possibility that their world is not what it seems. Acclaimed novelist Matt Ruff has created a shadow world that is eerily recognizable but, at the same time, almost unimaginable. Gripping, subversive, and unexpectedly moving, The Mirage probes our deepest convictions and most arresting fears."@en
  • "In the summer of 2009, Arab Homeland Security agent Mustafa al Baghdadi is plunged into a conspiracy involving Suddam Hussein, Osama Bin Laden, and the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee when a captured suicide bomber claims that the world in which they live is a mirage."
  • "In the summer of 2009, Arab Homeland Security agent Mustafa al Baghdadi is plunged into a conspiracy involving Suddam Hussein, Osama Bin Laden, and the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee when a captured suicide bomber claims that the world in which they live is a mirage."@en
  • "Das Attentat erschüttert die Vereinigten Arabischen Staaten (VAS) bis ins Mark: Am 9.11.2001 steuern christliche Fundamentalisten zwei Flugzeuge in die Türme des Welthandelszentrums von Bagdad, ein drittes ins arabische Verteidigungsministerium in Riad, während mutige Passagiere das vierte, für Mekka bestimmte in der Wüste zum Absturz bringen. Die wirtschaftliche Supermacht sagt dem Terror daraufhin den Kampf an und besetzt die Ostküste von Amerika - Entwicklungsland und mutmassliche Heimat der Terroristen. Acht Jahre später neigt sich der Krieg dort seinem Ende zu. Die Terrorgefahr ist allerdings nicht gebannt. Von einem verhafteten Selbstmordattentäter erfahren Mustafa, Samir und Amal, Bundesagenten für Innere Sicherheit, Unglaubliches: In Wahrheit sei Amerika die Grossmacht, die arabischen Staaten hingegen rückwärtsgewandte Dritte-Welt-Länder. Die ?New York Times? vom 12.9.2001, die beim Attentäter gefunden wird, scheint dies zu bestätigen. Bald entdecken Mustafa und sein Team, dass auch noch andere von dieser vermeintlichen Parallelwelt wissen und vor nichts zurückschrecken, um die Wahrheit darüber zu verschleiern ... Matt Ruff,1965 in New York geboren, wuchs als Sohn eines lutherischen Pfarrers in Queens auf. Er studierte Englische Literatur und Creative Writing und lebt heute in Seattle."

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  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
  • "Suspense fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Alternative histories (Fiction)"@en
  • "Alternative histories (Fiction)"

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  • "False verità : romanzo"@it
  • "False verità : romanzo"
  • "Mirage Roman"
  • "The mirage"@en
  • "The mirage"
  • "The Mirage"@en
  • "Miraż"
  • "Miraż"@pl
  • "Mirage : Roman"

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