This book was not for me. I mention it because it has won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and was shortlisted for the Prix Goncourt, Franceâs equivalent to the Man Booker Prize. Itâs a fictional account of the reactions of a father and his two sons caught in the restaurant in the north Twin Tower on September 11, 2001.
Comparison: Jonathan Safran Foer, Paul Auster, Martin Amis.
Similar this month: None.
‘The only way to know what took place in the restaurant on the 107th Floor of the North Tower, World Trade Center on September 11th 2001 is to invent it.'
| Primary Genre | Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
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‘The only way to know what took place in the restaurant on the 107th Floor of the North Tower, World Trade Center on September 11th 2001 is to invent it.' Weaving fact and fiction, empathy and dark humour, autobiography and intellect, Windows on the World dares to confront the terrifying image that has come to define our world, the image onto which we project our fears, our compassion, our anger, our incomprehension. Beigbeder is a fierce, furious, infuriating chronicler of human iniquity and human suffering, and this book is a controversial, yet surprisingly humane attempt to depict the most awful event of recent memory.
Windows On The World features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, eBooks of the Month, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations
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Windows On The World was written by Frederic Beigbeder and published by Harpercollins Publishers
Windows On The World has 312 pages
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