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Knopf
February 2010
On Sale: February 9, 2010
336 pages
ISBN: 0307272419
EAN: 9780307272416
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Fiction
An astonishingly original new novel by the award-winning author of Harbor (βCaptivatingββThe New York Times Book Review; βA great, gutsy novel . . . Outstandingβ β 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 Americaβs 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 todayβs dangerous world.
 Media BuzzAll Things Considered - March 22, 2010
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