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Total pages original book: 288
Includes a PDF summary of 25 pages
Duration of the summary (audio): 18M41S (5 MB)
Description or summary of the audiobook: At Heathrow airport, Amar, an Iraqi-American economist en route to Kurdistan, finds himself detained for the weekend. What draws these characters together, and how do their lives connect?Playful and inventive, tender and humane, Asymmetry is a novel which illuminates the power plays and imbalances of contemporary life - between young and old, West and Middle East, fairness and injustice, talent and luck, and the personal and the political. It introduces a major new literary talent, writing about the world today with astonishing versatility, acuity and daring.'The reveal is both astonishing and retrospectively inevitable. Halliday has written a transgressive roman a clef, a novel of ideas and a politically engaged work of metafiction. Asymmetry is extraordinary.' - New York Times'A witty, entertaining novel that asks perceptive questions about Western complacency. It's smart enough to avoid earnestness and so well constructed that you almost can't see the joints.' - Literary Review
Other categories, genre or collection: Contemporary Fiction