by John Updike · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483103982
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«Terrorista» is the contemporary novel by John Updike, published by Tusquets Editores S.A. in paperback, with 336 pages and text in Spanish.
Ahmad, son of an American mother of Irish origin and an absent Egyptian father, grows up in New Prospect. Converted to Islam as a child, at eighteen he is torn between his faith, his guidance counsellor Jack Levy and the imam Sheij Rashid, who pushes him towards a terrorist plot. The novel deals with identity, religion and cultural clash in the US after 9/11.
It belongs to the Andanzas collection, number 633; translation by Jaume Bonfill.
For readers of literary fiction and thrillers with a social backdrop, interested in American narrative and stories about identity and radicalisation.
John Hoyer Updike was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as poetry, art and literary criticism and children's books during his career.
