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Besieged (Paperback, New Ed)
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Besieged (Paperback, New Ed)
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His work has been described by the New York Times Book Review as an
"elegant pathology report on the modern soul," and the Village
Voice calls his prose "art that burrows into troubling new
territory even as it glides by like a dream." Besieged shows his
gift for exploring the undertones of contemporary experience at its
most haunting and electrically charged. Against a variety of
stunningly evoked backgrounds from the teeming banks of the Ganges
in Varanasi to a homeless shelter in New York these powerful,
intensely focused narratives reverberate, as Michiko Kakutani put
it in the New York Times, "insistently in the reader's mind long
after he has finished the book." In "Ate/Menos" or "The Miracle," a
young man takes unscrupulous advantage of a woman who mistakes him
for someone else and finds himself enmeshed in her desperate
obsessions and nightmares. In "The Siege," a wealthy recluse falls
in love with the immigrant woman who lives in his basement. On
discovering she is married and that her husband is a political
prisoner, he embarks on a course of action that will lead
simultaneously to his destruction and to his salvation. Two of the
stories in this collection were made into major independent film.
"Ate Menos" was the basis for the film Sunday, which won the Grand
Jury Best Feature Award at Sundance. "The Siege" was adapted by
Bernardo Bertolucci for his film Besieged."
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