A Good Country
Autor Laleh Khadivien Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 sep 2018
Laguna Beach, California, 2010. Alireza Courdee, a 14-year-old straight-A student and chemistry whiz, takes his first hit of pot. In as long as it takes to inhale and exhale, he is transformed from the high-achieving son of Iranian immigrants into a happy-go-lucky stoner. He loses his virginity, takes up surfing, and sneaks away to all-night raves. For the first time, Reza--now Rez--feels like an American teen. Life is smooth; even lying to his strict parents comes easily.
But then he changes again, falling out with the bad-boy surfers and in with a group of kids more awake to the world around them, who share his background, and whose ideas fill him with a very different sense of purpose. Within a year, Reza and his girlfriend are making their way to Syria to be part of a Muslim nation rising from the ashes of the civil war.
Timely, nuanced, and emotionally forceful, A Good Country is a gorgeous meditation on modern life, religious radicalization, and a young man caught among vastly different worlds. What we are left with at the dramatic end is not an assessment of good or evil, East versus West, but a lingering question that applies to all modern souls: Do we decide how to live, or is our life decided for us?
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781632865854
ISBN-10: 1632865858
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 142 x 146 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury USA
ISBN-10: 1632865858
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 142 x 146 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury USA
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'Powerful, poignant, excellent' - Independent
'Important' - Guardian
'Stunning' - New York Times
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The powerful, moving story of a California teenager from an immigrant family who, finding himself in an increasingly hostile world, is turned from a carefree surfer's life towards a culture of fear and fanaticism
Fourteen-year-old Alireza Courdee contains multitudes. He is a straight-A student and an affable stoner; the high-achieving son of Iranian immigrants, and a Californian surf kid; Alireza, and just plain Rez. But when a terror incident shocks the nation - and then another, and another - Rez finds that the world has only one idea about the type of person he is; that his name and the colour of his skin make him an object of suspicion.
But there are new friends to shine a light into Rez's isolated, angry existence - Arash, a fellow Muslim student, and the beautiful Fatima. Little by little, Rez is drawn into a new circle, a circle as troubling as it is consoling - and which has a grim and glorious mission in mind for him.
Insightful, nuanced and timely, A Good Country is an unforgettable coming-of-age story which deftly captures a young man's alienation and search for identity in a flawed and violent world.
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'Powerful, poignant, excellent' - Independent
'Important' - Guardian
'Stunning' - New York Times
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The powerful, moving story of a California teenager from an immigrant family who, finding himself in an increasingly hostile world, is turned from a carefree surfer's life towards a culture of fear and fanaticism
Fourteen-year-old Alireza Courdee contains multitudes. He is a straight-A student and an affable stoner; the high-achieving son of Iranian immigrants, and a Californian surf kid; Alireza, and just plain Rez. But when a terror incident shocks the nation - and then another, and another - Rez finds that the world has only one idea about the type of person he is; that his name and the colour of his skin make him an object of suspicion.
But there are new friends to shine a light into Rez's isolated, angry existence - Arash, a fellow Muslim student, and the beautiful Fatima. Little by little, Rez is drawn into a new circle, a circle as troubling as it is consoling - and which has a grim and glorious mission in mind for him.
Insightful, nuanced and timely, A Good Country is an unforgettable coming-of-age story which deftly captures a young man's alienation and search for identity in a flawed and violent world.
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Recenzii
Powerful, poignant, excellent
Important
Stunning
With insightful, often moving prose, dialogue so exact it echoes from the page, and a stunning balance between compassion and merciless (often damning) realism, Khadivi begins to unravel one of the miseries of the modern political era, which isn't about politics at all but is entirely contained within the flawed and insatiable human heart
The narrative is tense and dramatic . An expertly crafted coming-of-age story about radicalisation and cultural integration
What would it take for a studious American teenager - the son of hard-working Iranian immigrants, addicted to surfing, his friends, his stoner way of life and girls - to forsake all of that and become a radicalised Muslim? The question is explored brilliantly in Laleh Khadivi's third novel . The unerring precision of her prose draws you, piece by piece, into Rez's orbit and makes you concerned for his welfare once the skies darken
Khadivi is a massive talent, lyrical, evocative, and unsparing . . . Khadivi's feat is a crucial one, especially at this moment in time, when young Muslim men are dehumanized by white Americans far more often than they are understood to be complicated, and individual, human beings .You won't want the book to end
Engrossing . . . Khadivi's carefully crafted, masterful novel illustrates how the perfect storm of teenage cruelty, racism, and tragedy can create an extremist
Brilliantly channeling the minds of angst-filled teenagers with barely formed worldviews who seesaw between brash self-confidence and deflating insecurities . . . Khadivi has written an important, smart, timely novel that rivals such standouts as Karan Mahajan's The Association of Small Bombs or Moshin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Important
Stunning
With insightful, often moving prose, dialogue so exact it echoes from the page, and a stunning balance between compassion and merciless (often damning) realism, Khadivi begins to unravel one of the miseries of the modern political era, which isn't about politics at all but is entirely contained within the flawed and insatiable human heart
The narrative is tense and dramatic . An expertly crafted coming-of-age story about radicalisation and cultural integration
What would it take for a studious American teenager - the son of hard-working Iranian immigrants, addicted to surfing, his friends, his stoner way of life and girls - to forsake all of that and become a radicalised Muslim? The question is explored brilliantly in Laleh Khadivi's third novel . The unerring precision of her prose draws you, piece by piece, into Rez's orbit and makes you concerned for his welfare once the skies darken
Khadivi is a massive talent, lyrical, evocative, and unsparing . . . Khadivi's feat is a crucial one, especially at this moment in time, when young Muslim men are dehumanized by white Americans far more often than they are understood to be complicated, and individual, human beings .You won't want the book to end
Engrossing . . . Khadivi's carefully crafted, masterful novel illustrates how the perfect storm of teenage cruelty, racism, and tragedy can create an extremist
Brilliantly channeling the minds of angst-filled teenagers with barely formed worldviews who seesaw between brash self-confidence and deflating insecurities . . . Khadivi has written an important, smart, timely novel that rivals such standouts as Karan Mahajan's The Association of Small Bombs or Moshin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist