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Terrorist

By John Updike

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| Hardcover | 9780307264657

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The ever-surprising John Updike’s twenty-second novel is a brilliant contemporary fiction that will surely be counted as one of his most powerful. It tells of eighteen-year-old Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy and his devotion to Allah and the words of the Holy Qur’an, as expounded to him by a loContinue

The ever-surprising John Updike’s twenty-second novel is a brilliant contemporary fiction that will surely be counted as one of his most powerful. It tells of eighteen-year-old Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy and his devotion to Allah and the words of the Holy Qur’an, as expounded to him by a local mosque’s imam.

The son of an Irish-American mother and an Egyptian father who disappeared when he was three, Ahmad turned to Islam at the age of eleven. He feels his faith threatened by the materialistic, hedonistic society he sees around him in the slumping factory town of New Prospect, in northern New Jersey. Neither the world-weary, depressed guidance counselor at Central High School, Jack Levy, nor Ahmad’s mischievously seductive black classmate, Joryleen Grant, succeeds in diverting the boy from what his religion calls the Straight Path. When he finds employment in a furniture store owned by a family of recently immigrated Lebanese, the threads of a plot gather around him, with reverberations that rouse the Department of Homeland Security.

But to quote the Qur’an: Of those who plot, God is the best.

Critics

  • Paradise lost

    Terrorist by John Updike 310pp, Hamish Hamilton, £17.99 At a stage at which he might be forgiven for resting on his well-earned laurels, John Updike has chosen to tackle a subject as risky as it is topical. Set in post-9/11 New Jersey, Terrorist char ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Portrait of the terrorist as a young aesthete

    Terrorist by John Updike (Hamish Hamilton £17.99, pp310) This is a profoundly curious novel for John Updike to have written. With its alarmist title bisected by a bolt of apocalyptic lightning on the cover, and its determined plotting towards a clima ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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