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Rizzoli
November 2002
On Sale: October 25, 2002
128 pages
ISBN: 0847825043
EAN: 9780847825042
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Non-Fiction
With The Rage and the Pride Oriana Fallaci breaks a ten
year silence. The silence she kept until September 11's
apocalypse in her Manhattan house. She breaks it with a
deafening noise. In Europe this book has caused and causes
a turmoil never registered in decades. Polemics,
discussion, debates, hearty consents and praises, wild
attacks. And a million copies sold in Italy where it still
is at the bestsellers' top. Hundreds of thousands in
France, in Germany, in Spain: the other countries where it
has become the Number one Bestseller. Around a dozen
translations will soon appear. With her well-known courage Oriana Fallaci faces the
themes unchained by the Islamic terrorism: the contrast
and, in her opinion, incompatibility between the Islamic
world and the Western world; the global reality of the
Jihad and the lack of response, the lenience of the West.
With her brutal sincerity she hurls pitiless accusations,
vehement invectives, and denounces the uncomfortable
truths that all of us know but never dare to express. With
her rigorous logic, lucidity of mind, she defends our
culture and blames what she calls our blindness, our
deafness, our masochism, the conformism and the arrogance
of the Politically Correct. With the poetry of a prophet
like a modern Cassandra she says it in the form of a
letter addressed to all of us. The text is enriched by a dramatic preface in which Oriana
Fallaci reveals how The Rage and the Pride was born, grew
up, and detachedly calls it "my small book." In addition,
a preface in which she tells significant episodes of her
extraordinary life and explains her unreachable isolation,
her demanding and inflexible choices. Because of this too,
what she calls "my small book" is in reality a great book.
A precious book, a book that shakes our conscience. It is
also the portrait of a soul. Her soul. No doubt it will
remain as a thorn pierced inside our brains and our hearts.
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