Research Catalog

Title

September : mirage / Thomas Lehr ; translated by Mike Mitchell.

Author

Lehr, Thomas, 1957-

Publication

London ; New York : Seagull Books, 2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Mitchell, Mike
• Mitchell, Mike (Translator)

Description

420 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Two fathers with two daughters: Martin, professor of German, writes but is studying Earth Sciences at MIT; Tariq, a doctor in Baghdad and Muna, is studying the archaeology of a region that is seen as the cradle of civilization. These two parallel relationships in two very different parts of the world expose the human similarities beneath cultural differences. In Thomas Lehr's moving and realistic novel, the similarities between these men become a similarity of suffering as well. Martin's daughter dies with her mother in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and though Tariq survives three wars and Saddam Hussein's regime intact, his family does not--in the last days of the conflict, his daughter is raped, her lover is murdered, and she sees her sister and mother die in a bomb attack.

Subject

• 2001
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 > Fiction
• Victims of terrorism > Fiction
• Terrorism victims' families > Fiction
• New York (N.Y.) > Fiction
• Baghdad (Iraq) > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Fiction
• Belletristische Darstellung
• Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945

Note

• Translation of: September, Fata Morgana, originally published: Munich : Carl Hanser Verlag, 2010.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The ship, September 2001 -- The towers, September 2002 -- Paradise, June-September 2004 -- Epilogue, September 2004.

ISBN

• 9780857420787
• 085742078X

OCLC

• 884631146
• SCSB-13211881

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library