From one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth centuryāand the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series: āA chilling tale that is perhaps the most essential novel to emerge from September 11ā (People) about an eighteen-year-old devoted to Allah, whoās convinced heās discovered Godās purpose for him.āThe most satisfactory elements in Terrorist are those that remind us that no amount of special pleading can set us free of history, no matter how oblivious and unresponsive to it we may be.āāThe New York Times Book ReviewThe terrorist of John Updikeās title is eighteen-year-old Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy, the son of an Irish American mother and an Egyptian father who disappeared when he was three. Devoted to Allah and to the Qurāan as expounded by the imam of his neighborhood mosque, Ahmad feels his faith threatened by the materialistic, hedonistic society he sees around him in the slumping New Jersey factory town of New Prospect. Neither Jack Levy, his life-weary guidance counselor at Central High, nor Joryleen Grant, his seductive black classmate, succeeds in diverting Ahmad from what the Qurāan calls the Straight Path. Now driving a truck for a local Lebanese furniture storeāa job arranged through his imamāAhmad thinks he has discovered Godās purpose for him. But to quote the Qurāan: Of those who plot, God is the best.
Dimensions: 141 x 209
Author: John Updike
ISBN: 9780345493910
Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
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