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AFTER
by Claire Tristram
U.S. Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux [Spring 2004]
Translation rights controlled by Farrar, Straus & Giroux
A searing first novel about a passionate affair and its devastating consequences.
For a year, an American widow has been admired by the nation for her courageous and stoic response to her husband’s murder by Muslim extremists. But her life and her own grieving process have become increasingly restricted by the part forced on her through circumstance. On the anniversary of her husband’s death, in an effort to escape her public role, she chooses to do what is least expected of her - she takes a married Muslim lover. This intense, explicit, and deeply compelling first novel spans the twenty-four hour period in which the widow and her lover meet at a small hotel somewhere on the coast, a safe distance from the city where their real lives are waiting. During this interlude, their affair plays out in a way that neither one could have expected, forcing each to question his assumptions and expectations of the other.
Challenging notions of power, revenge and victimization, AFTER is a powerful, evocative and disturbing portrait of our times.
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