Anglický jazyk

Correspondents

Vydavateľstvo: Pan Macmillan
Rok vydania: 2021
Formát: Paperback
Rozmer: 198 x 132 mm
Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
ISBN: 9781529040272

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O knihe

'Murphy artfully connects multiple narratives to produce a sprawling tale of love, family, duty, war, and displacement. Correspondents is above all a stinging indictment of the ill-fated war in Iraq and the heavy tolls it continues to exact on its people.' Khaled Hosseini
The world is Rita Khoury's oyster. The bright and driven daughter of an Irish nurse and Lebanese surgeon, Rita grows up in a 1980s cultural mishmash. Corned beef and cabbage sit on the dinner table alongside stuffed grape leaves and tabooleh. Both sides of Rita's family came to the United States in the golden years of immigration, rising over the generations from poor immigrants to part of the coastal elite. In her home north of Boston, Rita grows into a stubborn perfectionist, charting an ambitious path from Harvard to cosmopolitan Beirut, where she works as a journalist.
When she is assigned to cover the America-led invasion of Baghdad in 2003, she finds herself unprepared for the warzone. For the first time in her life, her safety depends on someone else, her talented interpreter and fixer Nabil al-Jumaili. An equally driven young man from a middle-class family, Nabil's dreams have been restricted by life in a deteriorating dictatorship, while harbouring a secret about his sexuality. As the war tears Iraq apart, personal betrayal and the horrors of conflict force Rita and Nabil out of the country and into twisting, uncertain fates. What lies in wait will upend their lives forever, shattering their own notions of what they're entitled to in a grossly unjust world.
Correspondents is a whirlwind story about displacement from one's own roots, the violence America promotes both abroad and at home, and the resilience that allows families to remake themselves and endure even the most shocking upheavals.