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Atta

Ours is a century of fear. Governments and mass media bombard us with words and images: desert radicals, -rogue states, — jihadists, WMDs, existential enemies of freedom. We labor beneath myths that neither address nor describe the present situation, monstrous deceptions produced by a sound bite society. There is no reckoning of actuality, no understanding of the individual lives that inaugurated this echo chamber.

In the summer of 1999, Mohamed Atta defended a master's thesis that critiqued the introduction of Western-style skyscrapers in the Middle East and called for the return of the -Islamic-Oriental city.- Using this as a departure point, Jarett Kobek's novel ATTA offers a fictionalized psychedelic biography of Mohamed Atta that circles around a simple question: what if 9/11 was as much a matter of architectural criticism as religious terrorism? Following the development of a socially awkward boy into one of history's great villains, Kobek demonstrates the need for a new understanding of global terrorism. Joined in this volume by a second work, -The Whitman of Tikrit — -a radical reimagining of Saddam Hussein's last day before capture — ATTA is a brutal, relentless, and ultimately fearless corrective to ten years of propaganda and pandering.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 200
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781584351061
  • Genres
  • fiction, novels, literature, politics, contemporary
  • Release date
  • 2011