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- ISBN: 9780374271565 (0374271569)
- Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Places: New York State
- Author: Amy Waldman
- Genres: fiction, contemporary, adult, religion, novels
- Language: english
- Format: hardcover, 300 pages
- Release date: August 16, 2011
- Awards: Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2012), Guardian First Book Award Nominee (2011), Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize (2011), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2011), Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature for Adult Fiction (2011)
About The Book
Ten years after 9/11, a dazzling, kaleidoscopic novel reimagines its aftermath and wonders what would happen if a Muslim-American was blindly chosen to plan the World Trade Center Memorial.
Claire Harwell hasn’t settled into grief; events haven’t let her. Cool, eloquent, raising two fatherless children, Claire has emerged as the most visible of the widows who became a potent political force in the aftermath of the catastrophe. She longs for her husband, but she has found her mission: she sits on a jury charged with selecting a fitting memorial for the victims of the attack.
Of the thousands of anonymous submissions that she and her fellow jurors examine, one transfixes Claire: a garden on whose walls the names of the dead are inscribed. But when the winning envelope is opened, they find the designer is Mohammad Khan — Mo — an enigmatic Muslim-American who, it seems, feels no need to represent anyone’s beliefs except his own. When the design and its creator are leaked, a media firestorm erupts, and Claire finds herself trying to balance principles against emotions amid escalating tensions about the place of Islam in America.
A remarkably bold and ambitious debut, The Submission is peopled with journalists, activists, mourners, and bureaucrats who struggle for advantage and fight for their ideals. In this deeply humane novel, the breadth of Amy Waldman’s cast of characters is matched by her startling ability to conjure individual lives from their own points of view. A striking portrait of a city — and a country — fractured by old hatreds and new struggles, The Submission is a major novel by an important new talent.
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