The Submission, A Novel

Resumen del libro

"The Submission reads as if the author had embraced Tom Wolfe's famous call for a new social realism for fiction writers to use their reporting skills to depict this wild, bizarre, unpredictable, hog-stomping baroque country of ours' and in doing so has come up with a story that has more verisimilitude, more political resonances, and way more heart than Mr. Wolfe's own 1987 bestseller, The Bonfire of the Vanities." Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times





A jury gathers in Manhattan to select a memorial for the victims of the devastating terrorist attack. Their deliberations complete, the jurors open the envelope containing the anonymous winner's name and discover he is an American Muslim. Instantly, they are cast into roiling debate about the claims of grief, the ambiguities of art, and the meaning of Islam and their conflicted response is only a preamble to the country's in this extraordinary first novel.