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Knopf
February 2010
On Sale: February 9, 2010
336 pages ISBN: 0307272419 EAN: 9780307272416 Hardcover
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An astonishingly original new novel by the award-winning
author of Harbor (“Captivating”—The New York Times Book
Review; “A great, gutsy novel . . . Outstanding” —
Entertainment Weekly) that moves from a newsroom in the
American capital to a cockpit over Afghanistan, from an
Iranian cemetery to a military intelligence office in
suburban Washington, as it explores a world of entwined
conflicts and the way narratives about violence are told,
twisted, hidden, or forgotten. Here are fine-drawn, empathetic portraits of the often
overlooked actors of America’s infinite global war: the
ridiculed night editor of a prestigious newspaper, an
overburdened nuclear engineer, a duty-bound female fighter
pilot, a religiously impassioned novice reporter, a
sergeant major thrust into the responsibilities of a
secretive command. Their longings and loyalties take us, in
the course of one shattering year, from a forested city
park where child whores set up business to a Dubai hotel
where a desperate man tries to disappear, from the
nighttime corridors of Walter Reed Hospital to the snow-
thickened mountains of the Hindu Kush. Told in language as stunning for its beauty as for its
verisimilitude, The Room and the Chair dazzlingly bends the
conventions of literary suspense to create an
unforgettable, groundbreaking chronicle of today’s
dangerous world.
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