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 disappeare...
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.</p>
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人民文学出版社2009版
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人民文学出版社2009版
1 有用 白乐寒 2014-04-18 20:13:07
“他们”与“我们”的区别就是地狱的起源
0 有用 约瑟夫·K 2013-02-28 22:34:22
还挺喜欢那段说get laid的时候发现那女的是joryleen的
0 有用 柠檬啊柠檬 2016-04-30 08:57:11
主要好在对社会问题的观察吧 宗教方面的东西好像不太深 自己喜欢的部分是Ahmad作为religious person的感官描写 喜欢Updike
0 有用 Achilleo 2016-04-18 15:58:26
Does the author really know Muslims…
0 有用 solsticer 2013-05-05 14:25:30
讨论现代宗教的就上帝之城写到我的心坎上了。。。
0 有用 魏沈蘑 2021-06-24 10:40:42
那些卑劣，糟糕，迷茫，困惑，不尽人意掩盖下丝丝缕缕生长的理性和善意。全书饱含作者的人文主义观照。
0 有用 柠檬啊柠檬 2016-04-30 08:57:11
主要好在对社会问题的观察吧 宗教方面的东西好像不太深 自己喜欢的部分是Ahmad作为religious person的感官描写 喜欢Updike
0 有用 Achilleo 2016-04-18 15:58:26
Does the author really know Muslims…
1 有用 白乐寒 2014-04-18 20:13:07
“他们”与“我们”的区别就是地狱的起源
0 有用 solsticer 2013-05-05 14:25:30
讨论现代宗教的就上帝之城写到我的心坎上了。。。