CAN THE GLASS EVER REALLY BE MORE THAN HALF-FULL? A young Pakistani academic relives his days sharing a cramped apartment in Aarhus, Denmark, with two unlikely bedfellows. They are Ravi, his incorrigible best friend and a wry observer of the human condition; and Karim, their fundamentalist Muslim landlord, whose apparent double life soon intrigues his tenants. While Ravi finds his jaded world outlook challenged when he falls for an unlikely Danish girl, and our narrator embarks upon a complicated love affair of his own, Karim's bizarre and secretive behaviour leads to creeping suspicions that something might, indeed, be rotten in the state of Denmark . . . By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position is a sparkling account of strangers in strange lands, told with wit and humanity.
Tabish Khair Knihy
Tabish Khair je autorom, ktorý skúma zložité vzťahy medzi kultúrami a identitami. Jeho diela sa často zameriavajú na témy migrácie, odcizenia a hľadania domova. Khairov štýl je charakteristický poetickým jazykom a prenikavými psychologickými portrétmi postáv. Jeho písanie ponúka hlboký vhľad do ľudskej skúsenosti na pozadí globalizovaného sveta.
