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Godsend John Wray

Godsend By John Wray

Godsend by John Wray

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Summary

Inspired by 'American Taliban' John Walker Lindh, this compelling novel from the award-winning author tells the story of a young girl leaving her home, family and country for radical Islam

Godsend Summary

Godsend by John Wray

Aden Grace Sawyer has travelled a long way to begin her new life, and she'll travel further to protect her secret. But once she's in Pakistan, Aden finds herself in more danger than she could have imagined. Faced with violence and loss, she must make choices that will test not only her faith, but her understanding of who she is. Compelling, unnerving and timely, Godsend is a study of what it means for a person to give themselves to their faith, and how far they will go to find a place to belong.

Godsend Reviews

Frequently mesmerising . . . This is a significant literary performance -- Dwight Garner * * New York Times * *
Rawly unsentimental but illuminated throughout by a subtle compassion, Godsend is a novel of enormous emotional intelligence which makes for compelling and consistently unpredictable reading -- Robin Yassin-Kassab * * Guardian * *
The 9/11 novel that finally understands the fulfilments of faith . . . It is not only Wray's heroine but also his novel that comes of age, steadily deepening and astounding as it develops . . . Godsend impresses because Wray is so fearlessly committed to his fictional world, and to his own depiction of it -- James Wood * * New Yorker * *
Wray's storytelling is so taut, his psychology so audacious -- JONATHAN FRANZEN * * Guardian * *
A nervy drama of secrecy and desire . . . Fascinating * * Observer * *
Illuminating . . . At a time when so many novelists are turning towards inner landscapes, Wray has undertaken a journey to the edge of the unimaginable -- Michael LaPointe * * Times Literary Supplement * *
Brilliantly executed . . . Wray's novel is on one hand an entirely familiar story of youthful rebellion and on the other an unimaginable depiction of a cold-blooded killer groomed by the world's most notorious army * * Wall Street Journal * *
Laden with tension and suspense . . . A compelling adventure story * * Irish Times * *
Wray writes with an elegant economy . . . Wray's understanding of the beauties and cruelties of religious faith is deeply impressive . . . This is a very fine novel indeed . . . Anybody who seeks to understand the world as it is today will find enlightenment here -- Allan Massie * * Scotsman * *
This novel crosses lines that fiction should, stretching the imagination from suburban California to a jihadi training camp in the foothills of the Hindu Kush. Wray's taut prose propels a gripping narrative that stands head and shoulders above most fiction about America's war on terror -- HARI KUNZRU, author of WHITE TEARS

About John Wray

John Wray is the author of five novels, including The Lost Time Accidents and Lowboy. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers' Award, and a Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin, and has been named one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists. A citizen of both the United States and Austria, he lives in New York City. @John_Wray | johnwray.net

Additional information

GOR010171258
9781782119654
1782119655
Godsend by John Wray
John Wray
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Canongate Books Ltd
2019-10-17
240
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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