by John Updike · Edicións Xerais · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497826198
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«Terrorista» is the novel by John Updike, published by Edicións Xerais in paperback (364 pages, in Galician).
Set in New Prospect (New Jersey), the novel follows Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy, an eighteen-year-old son of an Irish-American mother and an Egyptian father, who grows up not fitting into the society around him. His conversion to Islam and the influence of Sheikh Rashid lead him to work as a truck driver instead of pursuing higher education, despite his academic talent. Contact with Jack Levy, his high school guidance counsellor, and the offer to take part in an attack on a New York tunnel place him before a dilemma about his faith and his place in the world.
Originally published in English as «Terrorist»; Galician translation by Lara Domínguez.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in the conflict between identity, faith and society in the United States.
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.
