Due Preparations for the Plague

ISBN: 9780393057645

作者: Janette Turner Hospital

出版社: W W Norton & Co Inc

出版年: 2003-7

页数: 401

定价: $ 28.19

装帧: HRD

内容简介

A major literary voice spins a psychological terror tale in the mode of John Le Carre. Lowell, A Single Father, is haunted by the memory of a hijacked Paris-New York flight on which his mother was killed when he was a teenager. A stranger, Samantha, has recently begun harassing him with phone calls about information from declassified documents. She is obsessed with learning the whole truth about Air France 64. "I was on that flight. I was six years old. I have right, " she says. "What can be worse than not knowing?" Janette Turner Hospital's electrifying new novel is a tightly woven web of familial and national histories, of sexual and political passions, and of individual and national complicities in the age of terrorism. She probes with astonishing acuity the murky worlds of espionage and intelligence gathering and the painful meaning of survival.