The Attack Yasmina Khadra

The Attack  Yasmina Khadra

Overview:

From the bestselling author of The Swallows of Kabul comes this timely and haunting novel that powerfully illuminates the devastating human costs of terrorism.

Dr. Amin Jaafari, an Arab-Israeli citizen, is a surgeon at a hospital in Tel Aviv. Dedicated to his work, respected and admired by his colleagues and community, he represents integration at its most successful. He has learned to live with the violence and chaos that plague his city, and on the night of a deadly bombing in a local restaurant, he works tirelessly to help the shocked and shattered patients brought to the emergency room. 

Yet this night of turmoil and death takes a horrifyingly personal turn. His wife’s body is found among the dead, with massive injuries, the police coldly announce, typical of those found on the bodies of fundamentalist suicide bombers. As evidence mounts that his wife, Sihem, was responsible for the catastrophic bombing, 

Dr. Jaafari is torn between cherished memories of their years together and the inescapable realization that the beautiful, intelligent, thoroughly modern woman he loved had a life far removed from the comfortable, assimilated existence they shared.

From the graphic, beautifully rendered description of the bombing that opens the novel to the searing conclusion, The Attack portrays the reality of terrorism and its incalculable spiritual costs. Intense and humane, devoid of political bias, hatred, and polemics, it probes deep inside the Muslim world and gives readers a profound understanding of what seems impossible to understand.

“Engrossing…audaciously conceived, courageously important and urgently humane, The Attack is Khadra’s best and most ambitious novel yet.”

—The Los Angeles Time

 “A genuine work of art.”

—The Philadelphia Inquirer

“Gripping, dynamic. . . .Both a fierce rendering of geopolitical tensions and a plea for peace.”

—Tne New York Times

“A powerfully dark vision . . . of the [Arab-Israeli] conflict.”

—The New Yorker“An engaging glimpse into the kinds of stories we never hear on CNN.”

—TimeOut Chicago

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