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Terrorist

The ever-surprising John Updike's twenty-second novel is a brilliant contemporary fiction that will surely be counted as one of his most powerful. It tells of eighteen-year-old Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy and his devotion to Allah and the words of the Holy Qur'an, as expounded to him by a local mosque's imam. The son of a bohemian Irish-American mother and an Egyptian father who disappeared when he was three, Ahmad turned to Islam at the age of eleven. He feels his faith threatened by the materialistic, hedonistic society he sees around him in the slumping factory town of New Prospect, in northern New Jersey. Neither the world-weary, depressed guidance counselor at Central High School, Jack Levy, nor Ahmad's mischievously seductive black classmate, Joryleen Grant, succeeds in diverting the boy from what his religion calls the Straight Path.

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  • "Ulrich Noethen liest: John Updike "Terrorist""
  • "Terrorist"
  • "Ulrich Noethen liest: John Updike. Terrorist"
  • "Terrorist [podcast]"

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  • "The ever-surprising John Updike's twenty-second novel is a brilliant contemporary fiction that will surely be counted as one of his most powerful. It tells of eighteen-year-old Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy and his devotion to Allah and the words of the Holy Qur'an, as expounded to him by a local mosque's imam. The son of a bohemian Irish-American mother and an Egyptian father who disappeared when he was three, Ahmad turned to Islam at the age of eleven. He feels his faith threatened by the materialistic, hedonistic society he sees around him in the slumping factory town of New Prospect, in northern New Jersey. Neither the world-weary, depressed guidance counselor at Central High School, Jack Levy, nor Ahmad's mischievously seductive black classmate, Joryleen Grant, succeeds in diverting the boy from what his religion calls the Straight Path."
  • "The ever-surprising John Updike's twenty-second novel is a brilliant contemporary fiction that will surely be counted as one of his most powerful. It tells of eighteen-year-old Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy and his devotion to Allah and the words of the Holy Qur'an, as expounded to him by a local mosque's imam. The son of a bohemian Irish-American mother and an Egyptian father who disappeared when he was three, Ahmad turned to Islam at the age of eleven. He feels his faith threatened by the materialistic, hedonistic society he sees around him in the slumping factory town of New Prospect, in northern New Jersey. Neither the world-weary, depressed guidance counselor at Central High School, Jack Levy, nor Ahmad's mischievously seductive black classmate, Joryleen Grant, succeeds in diverting the boy from what his religion calls the Straight Path."@en
  • "A National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner, John Updike is the author of the "Rabbit" novels, whose protagonist, Harry Angstrom, is one of America's most famous literary characters. Updike's Terrorist is a caustic and empathic rendering of an alienated post-9/11 sensibility in the person of Ahmad Ashmawy, a high school student in the working class city of New Prospect, N.J."
  • "An extraordinary and highly charged new novel, tackling one of today's burning issues - the threat of Islamist terror from within. Set in contemporary New Jersey, one young man begins a journey from radicalism to fundamentalism to terrorism, against the backdrop of a fraying urban landscape and an increasingly fragmented community. Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy feels that his faith is threatened by the materialistic, hedonistic society he sees around him, and neither his world-wary guidance counsellor nor his mischievously seductive black classmate, can succeed in diverting him from the Straight Path."@en
  • "Ahmad, threatened by the hedonistic society around him, gets involved in a plot, with reverberations that rouse the Department of Homeland Security."
  • "Eighteen-year-old Ahmad, the son of an Irish-American mother and long-gone Egyptian father, is contemptuous of the self-indulgent society surrounding him, and devoted to the teachings of Islam, becomes drawn into an insidious terrorist plot."
  • "Ahmad, threatened by the hedonistic society around him, gets involved in a plot, with reverberations that rouse the Department of Homeland Security."@en
  • "Eighteen-year-old Ahmad, the son of an Irish-American mother and long-gone Egyptian father, is contemptuous of the self-indulgent society surrounding him, and devoted to the teachings of Islam, becomes drawn into an insidious terrorist plot."@en
  • "Ahmad, who feels his faith is threatened by the hedonistic society around him, gets involved in a plot, with reverberations that rouse the Department of Homeland Security."@en

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  • "Hörbuch"
  • "Compact discs"
  • "Suspense fiction"
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  • "Audiobooks"
  • "Talking books"@en
  • "Talking books"
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  • "Terrorist a novel"
  • "Terrorist"
  • "Terrorist"@en
  • "Ulrich Noethen liest John Updike, Terrorist"
  • "The terrorist"
  • "Terrorist [talking book CD]"@en
  • "Terrorist : a novel"
  • "Terrorist [a novel]"
  • "Terrorist [a novel]"@en
  • "John Updike: Terrorist"

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