Montecore, the silence of the tiger
Khemiri, Jonas Hassen
Montecore, the silence of the tiger - New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 2011 - 311 p. ; 22 cm.
At the start of this dazzlingly inventive novel from Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Abbas, a world-famous photographer and estranged father to a young novelist, 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 émigré, come to enjoy such success?
9780307270955
Immigrants----Fiction
Tunisians---Sweden----Fiction
Sweden----Fiction
FIC KHE
Montecore, the silence of the tiger - New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 2011 - 311 p. ; 22 cm.
At the start of this dazzlingly inventive novel from Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Abbas, a world-famous photographer and estranged father to a young novelist, 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 émigré, come to enjoy such success?
9780307270955
Immigrants----Fiction
Tunisians---Sweden----Fiction
Sweden----Fiction
FIC KHE