Montecore

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Montecore

At the start of this dazzlingly inventive novel from Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Abbas, a world-famous photographer and estranged father to a young novelistâ€”also named Jonas Hassen Khemiriâ€”is standing on a luxurious rooftop terrace in New York City. He is surrounded by rock stars, intellectuals, and political luminaries gathered to toast his fiftieth birthday. And yet how did Abbas, a dirt-poor Tunisian orphan and Swedish Ã©migrÃ©, come to enjoy such success?

Jonas is fresh off the publication of his first novel when answers to this question come in the form of an unexpected e-mail from Kadir, a lifelong friend of Abbas and an effervescent storyteller with delightfully anarchic linguistic idiosyncrasies. The portrait Kadir paints of Abbasâ€”from a voluntarily mute boy who suffers constant night terrors, to a soulful young charmer, to a Swedish immigrant and political exileâ€”proves to be vastly different from Jonasâ€™s view of his father. As the two jagged versions reconcile in Kadir and Jonasâ€™s impassioned correspondence, weâ€™re given a portrayal of a man that is at once tender and feverishly imagined.

With an arresting blend of humor and wit, Montecore marks the stateside arrival of an already acclaimed international novelist. Winner of the PO Enquist Literary Prize for accomplished European novelists under forty, Jonas Hassen Khemiri has created a world that is as heartbreaking as it is exhilarating.

Country	USA
Author	Jonas Hassen Khemiri
Binding	Hardcover
EAN	9780307270955
Edition	First Edition
Format	Deckle Edge
ISBN	0307270955
Label	Knopf
Manufacturer	Knopf
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	336
PublicationDate	2011-03-01
Publisher	Knopf
ReleaseDate	2011-03-01
SKU	APX7687321514970630
Studio	Knopf

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