Correspondents : a novel

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Label

Correspondents : a novel

Title remainder

a novel

Statement of responsibility

Tim Murphy

Creator

• Murphy, Timothy, 1969-

Author

• Murphy, Timothy, 1969-

Subject

• Fiction
• Journalists
• Emigration and immigration
• Journalists -- Fiction
• Emigration and immigration -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Spanning the breadth of the twentieth century and into the post-9/11 wars and their legacy, Correspondents is a powerful novel that centers on Rita Khoury, an Irish-Lebanese woman whose life and family history mirrors the story of America. Both sides of Rita's family came to the United States in the golden years of immigration, which we see beautifully rendered in the first part of the novel, and in her home north of Boston Rita grows into a stubborn, perfectionist, and relentlessly bright young woman. She studies Arabic at university and moves to cosmopolitan Beirut to work as a journalist, and is then posted to Iraq after the American invasion in 2003. In Baghdad, she finds for the first time in her life that her safety depends on someone else, her talented interpreter Nabil al-Jumaili, an equally driven young man from a middle-class Baghdad family who is hiding a secret about his sexuality. As Na-bil's identity threatens to put him in jeopardy and Rita's position becomes more precarious as the war intensifies, their worlds start to unravel, forcing them out of the country and intoan uncertain future. Epic in scope, by turns funny and poignant, and moving from New England to the Middle East, Correspondents is a powerful story about the legacy of immigration, the present-day world of refugeehood, the violence that America causes both abroad and at home, and the power of the individual and the family to bring good into a world that is often brutal

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.54

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3563.U76196

LC item number

C67 2019

Literary form

fiction