Elliot Ackerman

Dark At The Crossing

Buch

From the author of the acclaimed Green on Blue, a timely new novel of stunning humanity and tension: a contemporary love story set on the Turkish border with Syria.Haris Abadi is a man in search of a cause. An Iraqi who once translated for the American troops in exchange for US citizenship, Haris now yearns to return to Turkey and cross into Syria to join the fight against Bashar al-Assad's regime. But he is robbed before he can make it, and is taken in by two Syrian refugees in Gaziantep - Amir, a former Syrian revolutionary, and his wife, Daphne, beautiful and sophisticated but haunted by grief. After learning that their young daughter was… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-907970-95-5
EAN: 9781907970955
Produktnummer: 21978579
Verlag: Faber & Faber
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 272 S.
Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
Masse: H19.9 cm x B13.1 cm x D2.5 cm 317 g
Gewicht: 317

Über den Autor

Elliot Ackerman's fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, the Atlantic, the New Republic, and the New York Times Magazine, among others, and have been included in The Best American Short Stories. He is a contributing editor at the Daily Beast and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He spent eight years in the military as both an infantry and special operations officer, serving multiple tours in the Middle East, and subsequently was a White House Fellow in the Obama Administration. He is the recipient of the Major General Edwin B. Wheeler Award for Infantry Excellence; and he earned a Silver Star and Purple Heart for his role in the November 2004 Battle of Fallujah, and a Bronze Star for Valor in Afghanistan in 2008.