The Infernal by Mark Doten
A fierce, searing response to the chaos of the war on terror--an utterly original and blackly comic debut
In the early years of the Iraq War, a severely burned boy appears on a remote rock formation in the Akkad Valley. A shadowy, powerful group within the U.S. government speculates: Who is he? Where did he come from? And, crucially, what does he know? In pursuit of that information, an interrogator is summoned from his prison cell, and a hideous and forgotten apparatus of torture, which extracts perfect confessions, is retrieved from the vaults. Over the course of four days, a cavalcade of voices rises up from the Akkad boy, each one striving to tell his or her own story. Some of these voices are familiar: Osama bin Laden, L. Paul Bremer, Condoleezza Rice, Mark Zuckerberg. Others are less so. But each one has a role in the world shaped by the war on terror. Each wants to tell us: This is the world as it exists in our innermost selves. This is what has been and what might be. This is The Infernal.
Doten, Mark: -
Mark Doten's writing has appeared in Conjunctions, Guernica, the Believer, and New York magazine. He has an MFA from Columbia University and is the recipient of fellowships from Columbia and the MacDowell Colony. Doten is currently a senior editor at Soho Press and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781555977016 |
| ISBN 10 | 1555977014 |
| Titel | The Infernal |
| Autor | Mark Doten |
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| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Graywolf Press |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2015-02-17 |
| Seitenanzahl | 416 |
| Hinweis auf dem Einband | Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden. |
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