Lavie Tidhar was in Dar-es-Salaam during the American embassy bombings in 1998, and stayed in the same hotel as the Al Qaeda operatives in Nairobi. Since then he and his now-wife have narrowly avoided both the 2005 King's Cross and 2004 Sinai attacks-experiences that led first to his memorable short story "e;My Travels with Al-Qaeda"e; and later to the creation of Osama.In a world without global terrorism Joe, a private detective, is hired by a mysterious woman to find a man: the obscure author of pulp fiction novels featuring one Osama Bin Laden: Vigilante...WINNER OF THE 2012 WORLD FANTASY AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL."e;An awesome book, dark, twisty alt-universe terrorist noir"e; - Lauren Beukes, author of Zoo City"e;Bears comparison with the best of Philip K Dick's paranoid, alternate-history fantasies. It's beautifully written and undeniably powerful."e; - The Financial Times"e;Not a writer to mess around with half measures...brings to mind Philip K Dick's seminal science fiction novel The Man in the High Castle."e; - The Guardian"e;A strange, melancholy and moving refl ection, torquing politics with the fantastic, and vice virtuosically versa."e; - bestselling author China Mieville"e;The author is young, ambitious, skilled and original. Osama is an ingenious inversion of modern history...excellent, evocative and atmospheric."e; - bestselling author Christopher Priest"e;Intensely moving."e; - Interzone
| ISBN: | 9781936535774 |
| Publication date: | 9th October 2012 |
| Author: | Lavie Tidhar |
| Publisher: | JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc. |
| Format: | Ebook (Epub) |