Building 46
Published on 5. May 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-1-85077-345-0 (ISBN)
Description
"Sam Saadoun, a closeted Jewish Arab university student from Los Angeles, travels to Beijing to pursue a gay Hollywood romance and other feelings of kinship that are unusual in hyper-capitalist spaces like the United States. But when he arrives in Beijing, Sam finds himself flung into a transformational existential crisis. Shadowy characters ask him to interrogate not just the ever-changing world city around him and its governing ideology of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, but a wild and disturbing murder mystery nestled in the bowels of his host university's most curious behemoth of a building"--Back cover.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 399 mm
Width: 188 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
242 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85077-345-0 (9781850773450)
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Massoud Hayoun is an award-winning author and journalist from Los Angeles. In 2019 his debut When We Were Arabs was published by New Press to critical claim. Part-memoir, part political exploration, it retells the story of his grandparents' emigration through Egypt, Tunisia, Palestine and America, uncovering what Arabness meant then and what it means today. It won the Arab American Book Award and was the U.S. National Public Radio book of the year. As a journalist Massoud has reported on international affairs in several languages for Al Jazeera, CNN and Agence France-Presse.