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Harbor
- Title
- Harbor / Lorraine Adams.
- Author
- Adams, Lorraine
- Publication
- New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2004.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PS3601.D38 H37 2004 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 291 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "We first meet Aziz Arkoun as a twenty-four-year-old stowaway - frozen, hungry, his perceptions jammed by a language he can't understand or speak. After fifty-two days in the hold of a tanker from Algeria, he jumps into the icy waters of Boston harbor and swims to shore. Seemingly rescued from isolation by Algerians he knew as a child, he instead finds himself in a world of disillusionment, duplicity, and stolen identities, living a raw comedy of daily survival not unlike what he fled back home." "As the story of Aziz and his friends unfolds - moving from the hardscrabble neighborhoods of East Boston and Brooklyn to a North African army camp - Harbor makes vivid the ambiguities of these men's past and present lives: burying a murdered girl in the Sahara, reading medieval Persian poetry on a bus, passing for Mexican, shoplifting Versace for clubbing, succumbing to sex in a public library, impersonating a double agent. But when Aziz begins to suspect that he and his friends are under surveillance, all assumptions - his and ours - dissolve in an urgent, mesmerizing complexity. And as Harbor races to its explosive conclusion, it compels us to question the questions it raises: Who are the terrorists? Can we recognize them? How do they live?"--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Suspense fiction.
- ISBN
- 140004233X (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004040916
- OCLC
- ocm54079617
- SCSB-5070632
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries