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Terrorist (Unabridged) [Unabridged Fiction]
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4.9 • 7 Ratings
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- $22.99
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- $22.99
Publisher Description
The ever-surprising John Updike's 22nd novel is a brilliant contemporary fiction that will surely be counted as one of his most powerful. It tells of 18-year-old Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy and his devotion to Allah and the words of the Holy Qur'an, as expounded to him by a local mosque's imam.
The son of a bohemian Irish-American mother and an Egyptian father who disappeared when he was three, Ahmad turned to Islam at the age of 11. He feels his faith threatened by the materialistic, hedonistic society he sees around him in the slumping factory town of New Prospect, in northern New Jersey. Neither the world-weary, depressed guidance counselor at Central High School, Jack Levy, nor Ahmad's mischievously seductive black classmate, Joryleen Grant, succeeds in diverting the boy from what his religion calls the Straight Path.
When he finds employment in a furniture store owned by a family of recently immigrated Lebanese, the threads of a plot gather around him, with reverberations that rouse the Department of Homeland Security.
But to quote the Qur'an: Of those who plot is God the best.
Customer Reviews
Great all around
The best book I "read" last year. The narration is very well done as well, just right, not distracting. Highly engrossing, great characters, recommend it! (and I'm not a big fan of Updike's other books)
Narrator makes it all the better
I read this when it first came out sometime in the 2000s. I liked it quite a bit, thought the characters where great, blah blah. I found that audio version a week ago at a used book store for a price I couldn't pass up and decided to give it another go. The narrator makes a good book great. His voices are perfect and never over the top like some audio books. He had a great understanding of each character, and the audio effects and production where fantastic as well. I highly recommend this.
Terrorist
One of the most impressive books I've read (listened to) in a long time. I've read some of Updike's short stories, but this is my first novel. It's beautifully literary in the writing, amazingly perceptive as to human nature, and a page-turner in terms of plot. I find myself listening every spare moment.