Upassende Opførsel by Mads Ananda Lodahl5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() Nicknamed Kalashnikov Kalaj for short for his machine-gun vitriol, the cab driver roars into the student s life with his denunciations of the American obsession with all things jumbo and ersatz Twinkies, monster television sets, all-you-can-eat buffets and his outrageous declarations on love and the art of seduction. He spends his days in a pleasant blur of seventeenth-century fiction, but when he meets a brash, charismatic Arab cab driver in a Harvard Square cafe, everything changes. It s the fall of 1977, and amid the lovely, leafy streets of Cambridge a young Harvard graduate student, a Jew from Egypt, longs more than anything to become an assimilated American and a professor of literature. Now, with his third and most ambitious novel, Aciman delivers an elegant and powerful tale of the wages of assimilation a moving story of an immigrant s remembered youth and the nearly forgotten costs and sacrifices of becoming an American. between who we are and who we wish we might have been (Wall Street Journal), and a writer of fiction at its most supremely interesting (Colm Toibin). ![]() Nicole Krauss Andre Aciman has been hailed as the most exciting new fiction writer of the twenty-first century (New York magazine), a brilliant chronicler of the disconnect. If you like brave, acute, elated, naked, brutal, tender, humane, and beautiful prose, then you ve come to the right place. ![]()
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