by John Updike · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483833964
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Ahmad, born in the industrial city of New Prospect, New York, converted to Islam at the age of eleven. Following the teachings of his imam, Sheikh Rachid, he adopted it as a shield against the hedonistic society that surrounds him. Now, at eighteen, plagued by sexual and moral anxieties, Ahmad struggles between his religious conscience, the advice of his school counselor, and Rachid's insinuations about his involvement in terrorist acts. One morning, he finds himself behind the wheel of a van loaded with explosives on his way to one of the access tunnels to the Big Apple.
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.
