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Grove Press
June 2012
On Sale: June 19, 2012
320 pages
ISBN: 0802120202
EAN: 9780802120205
Kindle: B0087GJVPO
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In an unnamed Middle Eastern security state, a young
Arab-Indian hacker shields his clients—dissidents, outlaws,
Islamists, and other watched groups—from surveillance and
tries to stay out of trouble. He goes by Alif—the first
letter of the Arabic alphabet, and a convenient handle to
hide behind. The aristocratic woman Alif loves has jilted
him for a prince chosen by her parents, and his computer has
just been breached by the State’s electronic security force,
putting his clients and his own neck on the line. Then it
turns out his lover’s new fiancé is the head of State
security, and his henchmen come after Alif, driving him
underground. When Alif discovers The Thousand and One Days,
the secret book of the jinn, which both he and the Hand
suspect may unleash a new level of information technology,
the stakes are raised and Alif must struggle for life or
death, aided by forces seen and unseen. With shades of Neal
Stephenson, Neil Gaiman, Philip Pullman, and The Thousand
and One Nights, Alif the Unseen is a tour de force debut—a
sophisticated melting pot of ideas, philosophy, religion,
technology and spirituality smuggled inside an irresistible
page-turner.
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