Osama

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Lavie Tidhar was in Dar-es-Salaam during the American embassy bombings in 1998, and stayed in the same hotel as the Al Qaeda operatives in Nairobi. Since then he and his now-wife have narrowly avoided both the 2005 King s Cross and 2004 Sinai attacks ”experiences that led first to his memorable short story My Travels with Al-Qaeda  and later to the creation of Osama. In a world without global terrorism Joe, a private detective, is hired by a mysterious woman to find a man: the obscure author of pulp fiction novels featuring one Osama Bin Laden: Vigilante... WINNER OF THE 2012 WORLD FANTASY AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL. "An awesome book, dark, twisty alt-universe terrorist noir" - Lauren Beukes, author of Zoo City "Bears comparison with the best of Philip K Dick s paranoid, alternate-history fantasies. It s beautifully written and undeniably powerful." - The Financial Times "Not a writer to mess around with half measures...brings to mind Philip K Dick s seminal science fiction novel The Man in the High Castle." - The Guardian "A strange, melancholy and moving refl ection, torquing politics with the fantastic, and vice virtuosically versa." - bestselling author China Miéville "The author is young, ambitious, skilled and original. Osama is an ingenious inversion of modern history...excellent, evocative and atmospheric." - bestselling author Christopher Priest "Intensely moving." - Interzone (Source: Google Books API)