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The infernal : a novel
Title:
The infernal : a novel
Author:
Doten, Mark, 1978-
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2015]
Physical Description:
426 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Summary:
"In the early years of the Iraq war, a severely burned boy appears on a remote rock formation in the Akkad valley. A shadowy, powerful group within the US government speculates: Who is he? Where did he come from? And, crucially, what does he know? In pursuit of that information, an interrogator is summoned from his prison cell, and a hideous and forgotten apparatus of torture, which extracts "perfect confessions, " is retrieved from the vaults. Over the course of four days, a cavalcade of voices rises up from the Akkad boy, each one striving to tell his or her own story. Some of these voices are familiar: Osama Bin Laden, L. Paul Bremer, Condoleezza Rice, Mark Zuckerberg. Others are less so. But each one has a role in the world shaped by the war on terror. Each wants to tell us: this is the world as it exists in our innermost selves. This is what has been and what might be" --
Language:
English
Contents:
Pt. 1. The death of the world -- pt. 2. Rebirth.
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ISBN:
9781555977016
Format :
Book