9/11 Novels

[Bekah]

I enjoyed The Reluctant Fundamentalist by (oh I can never remember his name)  -  Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid, published in 2007.

It's only 191 pages - excellent "minimalist" stuff - like every word contributes to the suspense and the concept. 

Bekah
Life is too short to read bad books,  drink bad coffee or knit with ugly yarn.


On Mar 1, 2013, at 3:40 PM, malignd at aol.com wrote:

> Netherland by Joseph O'Neill is often grouped with the 9/11 novels.  It's pretty damn good.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
> To: “pynchon-l at waste.or 
> g“ <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Fri, Mar 1, 2013 10:09 am
> Subject: 9/11 Novels
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> following recent thread, I'm not sure there has been a really good
> 9/11-themed novel. of course Delillo wrote 9/11 novels before 9/11 and
> then decided to write a 9/11 novel after and even Falling Man was a
> real bland effort. tackling it head on like that as david morris noted
> is not a good idea. it's still too fresh and too big an event to do
> that.
> I did like Matt Ruff's the Mirage, alternate universe take on 9/11
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> rich
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