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Remembering 911

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Garden of last days by Andre Debus II 

 

Set in the seamy underside of American life at the moment before the world changed, the novel juxtabposes lust for power with hunger for connection, sexual violence with family love.

 

Falling man by Don Delillo

Traces the way events of September 11, 2001, kindled or rekindled relationships and reconfigured America’s perceptions of the world.

 

 

 

 

 

Extremely loud and incredibly close by Jonathan Safron Foer

 

In confronting the traumas of recent history, solace is discovered in the human imagination.

 

Netherland by Joseph o’Neill

 

A  Dutch immigrant finds solace in the city of New York and the game of cricket when he finds himself adrift after September 11, 2001 in a fragmented story of a man in exile from home, family and himself.

Waxwings by Jonathan Raban

 

Set in Seattle in the very near future, a skillful and at times darkly humorous novel interrogating notions of home, family, security in the post 9/11 world.

 

 

Saturday by Ian McEwan

 

A compelling novel capturing the fine balance of happiness and the unforeseen threats that can destroy it, set on a single day in London, 2003.

 

 

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