false 11657 20 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 Quran, 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 Quran: <i>Of those who plot, God is the best.</i> 1540500 6 6 2006 Terrorist total:884|5:0|4:10|3:12|2:2|1:4| 884 2707 1293 201 2 25 false false Mon Mar 09 10:06:07 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 09 12:59:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 3 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon May 28 07:30:27 -0700 2007 Sun Jun 03 14:36:59 -0700 2007 more...]]> 1 3 false false Fri Oct 31 16:37:10 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 31 16:40:26 -0700 2008 ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 31 23:03:29 -0700 2007 Tue Nov 06 03:10:38 -0800 2007 I ...more...]]> 2 1 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 11 21:27:29 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 22 21:18:30 -0700 2007
Updike's still working overtime with the munda...more...]]> 1 1 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 09 06:51:58 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 17 20:25:10 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Apr 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 08:02:46 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 14:16:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 07 08:48:48 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 07 08:54:26 -0700 2007
Anyhow, Mr. Updike, if you're reading this, blame it on my shall...more...]]> 1 2 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 27 08:45:03 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 01 13:08:48 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jul 20 22:38:48 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 22:39:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Jun 29 08:46:10 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 09:01:04 -0700 2009 Ahmad is a devout Muslim youth living in New Prospect, NJ, about to grad...more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:39:28 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:39:28 -0800 2009 Not only does John Updike write tales of suburban angst; he also has a long history of ruminating on faith. Critics compare his latest novel to In the Beauty of the Lilies and The Coup except that Terrorist has an intensely contemporary flare. It's almost scandalous to see one of America's literary...

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The ever-surprising John Updike's 22nd novel is a brilliant contemporary fiction that will surely be counted as one of his most powerful. It tells of 18-year-old Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy and his de...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 25 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Aug 05 08:04:11 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 08:30:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Mar 06 21:41:09 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 09 14:55:06 -0700 2009
Our protaganist is a 1/2 Irish 1/2 Iraqi boy who is having real problems coming...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jul 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 15 09:42:21 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 23 14:47:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 08 10:21:22 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 08 10:21:22 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Aug 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 10 19:14:53 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 16 10:23:11 -0700 2009
Der 18jährige Ahmed Ashmawy Mulloy ist der Sohn einer irish-stämmigen Amerikanerin und eines Ägypters, ...more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Jun 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 21:30:11 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 22:11:09 -0700 2009 more...]]>