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By Matt Ruff
A mind-bending novel during which another heritage of 9-11 and its aftermath uncovers startling truths approximately the United States and the center East
11/9/2001: Christian fundamentalists hijack 4 jetliners. They fly into the Tigris & Euphrates international exchange Towers in Baghdad, and a 3rd into the Arab security Ministry in Riyadh. The fourth aircraft, believed to be sure for Mecca, is introduced down via its passengers.
The United Arab States proclaims a struggle on Terror. Arabian and Persian troops invade the japanese Seaboard and determine a eco-friendly sector in Washington, D.C. . . .
Summer, 2009: Arab native land defense agent Mustafa al Baghdadi interrogates a captured suicide bomber. The prisoner claims that the realm they're dwelling in is a mirage—in the genuine international, the USA is a superpower, and the Arab states are only a set of "backward third-world countries." A seek of the bomber's house turns up a replica of The manhattan Times, dated September 12, 2001, that looks to aid his declare. different captured terrorists were telling a similar tale. The president desires solutions, yet Mustafa quickly discovers he's now not the single occasion.
The gangster Saddam Hussein is engaging in his personal research. And the top of the Senate Intelligence Committee—a struggle hero named Osama bin Laden—will cease at not anything to conceal the reality. As Mustafa and his colleagues enterprise deeper into the unsettling international of terrorism, politics, and espionage, they're faced with questions with none rational solutions, and the terrifying threat that their global isn't what it seems.
Acclaimed novelist Matt Ruff has created a shadow global that's eerily recognizable yet, whilst, nearly unbelievable. Gripping, subversive, and all of sudden relocating, The Mirage probes our inner most convictions and so much arresting fears.
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Theirs was a curious relationship. Granny Godkin, before she met her, had imagined Beatrice as a tough blue-eyed bitch. What a royal battle there would be! She polished her weapons and waited. That day of the wedding, when she sat staring into the garden, she burned with excitement. The real Beatrice, a gentle creature dazed by her passion for my father, was a bitter disappointment, but, refusing to give up her dreams of flying blood and Jiair, the old woman launched her attack regardless. Mama, mistaking what was expected of her, pretended that things were other than they were, made herself agreeable, replied to what she wanted to hear not what was said, smiled, smiled, and raged in her dreams.
There was a rap upon the door, and expectant whispering outside, and then she was in the hall, hallooing her presence, straightening her son's carroty hair, tipping Nockter for having carried in the bags, all at the same time, all the time talking. She was a small intense young woman, quick as a bird, with short red hair and a pale, pointed face. Mama peered apprehensively out of the drawing room, and Aunt Martha let her coat fall to the floor and clapped her little hands. ’ They made a rush at each other, and smacked together in an awkward embrace.
It might be nice. ’ Granny Godkin shrieked. ’ Cloudshadow swept across the fallow field, and through that gloom a ragged band came marching. There was a young man with a sullen mouth, two strange pale girls, the small boy or dwarf. Were the others there too, those women, grotesque figures? Granny Godkin rose and brandished her stick at them, gobbling in fury and fright. ’ A flock of birds rose above the trees with a wild clatter of wings. Granny Godkin fled, and Mama folded her hands in her lap, and closed her eyes and smiled.