Into the Sun: A Novel
4/5
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
Alexandra was a human rights lawyer for imprisoned Afghan women. Justin was a born-again Christian who taught at a local school. Clay was an ex-soldier who worked as a private contractor. The car’s driver, Idris, was one of Justin’s most promising pupilsand he is missing.
Drawn to the secrets of these strangers, and increasingly convinced the events that led to the fatal explosion weren’t random, the journalist follows a trail that leads from Kabul to Louisiana, Maine, Québec, and Dubai. In the process, the tortured narratives of these individuals become inseparable from the larger story of America’s imperial misadventures.
In this monumental novel, Deni Ellis Béchard draws an unsentimental portrait of those who flock to warzones, indelibly capturing these journalists, mercenaries, idealists, and aid workers. More importantly, Béchard vividly brings to life the city of Kabul itself, along with the people who live there: the hungry, determined, and resourceful locals who are just as willing as their occupiers to reinvent themselves to survive.
Deni Ellis Béchard
Deni Ellis Béchard is the author of Vandal Love (Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book); Of Bonobos and Men (Grand Prize winner of the Nautilus Book Award for investigative journalism); Cures for Hunger, a memoir about his bank robber father (selected as one of the best memoirs of 2012 by Amazon.ca); and Into the Sun (Midwest Book Award for literary fiction, selected by CBC Radio Canada as one of 2017’s Incontournables and one of the most important books of the year to be read by Canada’s political leaders). He has reported from India, Cuba, Rwanda, Colombia, Iraq, the Congo, and Afghanistan. He has been a finalist for a Canadian National Magazine Award and has been featured in Best Canadian Essays 2017, and his photojournalism has been exhibited in the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. His articles, fiction, and photos have been published in newspapers and magazines around the world, including the LA Times, Salon, Reuters, The Walrus, Le Devoir, Vanity Fair Italia, The Herald Scotland, the Huffington Post, The Harvard Review, the National Post, and Foreign Policy Magazine. His most recent titles include Kuei, My Friend, an engaging book of letters that discuss racism and reconcilliation, My Favourite Crime, a book of journalistic essays that explore our sense of family, of the world, and of ourselves, and White, a riveting novel that explores whiteness, modern humanitarianism, and the lies of American exceptionalism and white supremacy.
Read more from Deni Ellis Béchard
White: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Empty Hands, Open Arms: The Race to Save Bonobos in the Congo and Make Conservation Go Viral Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCures for Hunger: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Into the Sun Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Song from Faraway: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsVandal Love: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5My Favourite Crime: Essays and Journalism from Around the World Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Into the Sun
Related ebooks
Odessa, Odessa: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bitter Fruit: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Wake of the Unseen Object: Travels through Alaska's Native Landscapes Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Lawbringers 1: The Lawbringers Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIs Just a Movie: A Novel Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Redemption Falls: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Middle Passage Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Tears of Dark Water Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5American Follies Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror and Deliverance in the City of Love Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Englishman's Boy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFox Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Wrong Hill to Die On Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Different Roads Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSummoning the Dead: Essays on Ron Rash Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSome of the Dead Are Still Breathing: Living in the Future Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Calculus of Falling Bodies: Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSitting in Darkness: Americans in the Philippines Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Abolitionists on the Underground Railroad: Legends from Montgomery County, Indiana Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThis Side Jordan: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Two Spirits: A Story of Life With the Navajo Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Rising Son; or, the Antecedents and Advancement of the Colored Race Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Wettest County in the World: A Novel Based on a True Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Spirit of the Border: A Romance of the Early Settlers in the Ohio Valley Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIola Leroy; Or, Shadows Uplifted Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDeadville: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dakotah: The Return of the Future Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Out of the Mountains: Appalachian Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Uncompahgre: where water turns rock red (Threads West, An American Saga Book 3) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Literary Fiction For You
The Tattooist of Auschwitz: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Sympathizer: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Handmaid's Tale Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I Who Have Never Known Men Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Demon Copperhead: A Pulitzer Prize Winner Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Life of Pi: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Silmarillion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5East of Eden Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Little Birds: Erotica Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Flowers for Algernon Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5All the Ugly and Wonderful Things: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Salvage the Bones: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Old Man and the Sea: The Hemingway Library Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Annihilation: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Covenant of Water (Oprah's Book Club) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tender Is the Flesh Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Queen's Gambit Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Piranesi Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I'm Thinking of Ending Things: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Anna Karenina: Bestsellers and famous Books Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pride and Prejudice: Bestsellers and famous Books Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Man Called Ove: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Into the Sun
2 ratings0 reviews