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Terrorist : a novel

The son of an Iris-American mother and an Egyptian father who disappeared when he was three, he turns to Islam at the age of 11. When as a high school student, he finds employment in a furniture store owned by recently immigrated Lebanese, a plot gathers around him that rouses the Department of Homeland Security.

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  • "The son of an Iris-American mother and an Egyptian father who disappeared when he was three, he turns to Islam at the age of 11. When as a high school student, he finds employment in a furniture store owned by recently immigrated Lebanese, a plot gathers around him that rouses the Department of Homeland Security."@en
  • "Dans une Amérique post-11 septembre, Ahmad Mulloy, un jeune lycéen doué vivant à New Prospect (New Jersey), une bourgade pauvre et morne proche de l'opulente Manhattan, bascule dans l'islamisme, manipulé par l'imam local et par un mystérieux marchand de meubles libanais. Seul Jack Levi, un conseiller d'orientation juive athée, repère le garçon et pousse sa mère à l'inscrire à l'université."
  • "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 factor 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. When he finds employment in a furniture store owned by a family of recently immigrated Lebanese, the threads of a plot gather around him, with reverberations that rouse the Department of Homeland Security."@en
  • "In this extraordinary and highly charged novel, John Updike, one of America's greatest living writers, tackles one of America's most burning issues - the threat of Islamist terror from within."@en
  • ""John Updike's twenty-second novel 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 an 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. When he finds employment in a furniture store owned by a family of recently immigrated Lebanese, the threads of a plot gather around him, with reverberations that rouse the Department of Homeland Security."--English publisher."
  • "Een imam indoctrineert een vrome jongeman, die walgt van de hedonistische en materialistische Amerikaanse cultuur, en brengt hem in contact met Arabieren die hem een zelfmoordaanslag willen laten plegen."
  • "Ahmad, threatened by the hedonistic society around him, gets involved in a plot, with reverberations that rouse the Department of Homeland Security."@en
  • "Ahmad, threatened by the hedonistic society around him, gets involved in a plot, with reverberations that rouse the Department of Homeland Security."
  • "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
  • "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, and feels his faith constantly threatened by the materialistic, hedonistic society that surrounds him. His devotion to Allah is misguided by an opportunistic iman, and the mild-mannered, intelligent young man slowly becomes the tool of terrorism."@en
  • "Terrorist is about Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy, an 18-year-old boy in Northern New Jersey who is devoted to Islam. Ahmad was raised by an Irish-American mother after his Egyptian father disappeared when he was three. Ahmad converts to Islam at age 11 and is instructed in the Qur'an by a local imam. Ahmad is a sympathetic character. Updike lets readers into his head, forcing us to view American materialism and morality from his viewpoint. We watch the recruitment process through the terrorist's eyes, and the subtle manipulations that are used to draw the recruit into the fold. Updike also draws us into other characters' lives--Ahmad's mother, a high school guidance counselor, an African-American teenage girl, a worker in the Department of Homeland Security."@en
  • "Ahmad, nacido en la ciudad industrial de New Prospect, en Nueva York, se convertió a islam a los once años, y siguiendo las enseñanzas de su rigorista imán, el sheij Rachid, lo asumió como escudo frente a la sociedad hedonista que le rodea. Ahora, a los dieciocho, acuciado por las angustias sexuales y morales, Ahmad se debate entre su conciencia religiosa, los consejos de su desencantado asesor escolar y las insinuaciones de implicación en actos terroristas de Rachid. Hasta que, una mañana, se encuentra al volante de una furgoneta cargada de explosivos camino de uno de los túneles de accesso a la Gran Manzana."

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  • "Translations"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Contemporary fiction"@en
  • "Large type books"@en
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  • "Electronic books"
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  • "Powieść amerykańska"
  • "Americké romány"
  • "Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Popular literature"
  • "Genres littéraires"
  • "Suspense fiction"@en
  • "Suspense fiction"

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  • "O terrorista"
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