Harbor (Vintage Contemporaries) - Tapa blanda

"Captivating. . . . Intricately plotted and beautifully written. . . . A remarkable act of artistic empathy." --The New York Times Book Review"Luminous. . . . Heart-stopping. . . . Adams draws her characters with compassion and humor." --The Washington Post Book World "Razor-sharp. . . . A vivid, fast-paced entry into an immigrant's story that is part thriller, part social commentary and at times darkly funny. . . .Terrific." -The Miami Herald "A great, gutsy first novel. . . . Outstanding."-Entertainment Weekly "Deeply introspective and tantalizingly beautiful. . . . Harbor is one of the best new novels of the year."-The Baltimore Sun"Complex, vibrant, and imaginative . . . as compelling as it is necessary."-Esquire"Endlessly fascinating. . . . Convincing and utterly compelling." --Time"Mesmerizing. . . . A ripping read. . . . A heart-rending cautionary tale of American justice gone awry." --Los Angeles Times Book Review"Remarkable . . . brilliant. . . . Compelling and haunting. . . . Adams creates an exquisite tension in a character who is at once unseen and yet hunted, both estranged from society and deeply enmeshed in a complicated social order. . . . [Harbor is] a work of art that lifts the veils of many of our assumptions that have formed since 9/11." --Boston Globe"[A] great, gutsy first novel. . . . Outstanding." --Entertainment Weekly"Fascinating. . . . [Adams] writes convincingly from within the hearts and minds of her characters. Though topical, the narrative flies well beneath the headlines." --The Oregonian"A chilling story of identity and loss culled from real-life experiences. . . . A cautionary tale that asks readers to be open-minded. . . . [Adams] never loses sight of a story that alternates between incredible moments of joy and sadness." --Pittsburgh Tribune-Review "Insightful. . . . Adams adds welcome shading to the usual portrayal of the war on terror." --U.S. News & World Report "A disturbing tale where suspicion is enough to trump innocence and the consequences of naivet? are potentially disastrous. . . . Adams humanizes the terrorist threat and convincingly shows how a confined worldview can breed generalizations that may hatch tragic consequences." --San Francisco Chronicle"Brilliant. . . . A strong and disturbing book." --Annie Proulx, Book-of-The Month Club News "Adams displays a gift for detail and character that takes us fully inside the complex systems of survival, kinship, and religious ideology which form Aziz's world." --The New Yorker"Adams is a sharp observer of the current war-on-terror politics. [Harbor] counters the media's easy perceptions in our age of xenophobia by immersing readers in the depths of myriad characters." --The Dallas Morning News"Mesmerizing. . . . A timely and grippingly written book, Harbor helps give the war on terror a human face." --People "Adams drags her characters through the wheels of fate and makes them sing . . . . [Her] sentences move with speed and visual economy, but also contain poetic beauties. . . . A compelling story with great characters--timely, suspenseful and profound." --Ruminator Review"A powerful look at America through immigrant eyes that is not only timely but essential in our post-9/11 society." --Ft. Worth Star-Telegram"[Adams] writes with verve and is so convincing that it often seems that this is a true story instead of fiction . . . A story about complex interaction between human beings of greatly differing cultures, written by an author of enormous talent." --Deseret Morning News

A young Algerian stowaway, Aziz Arkoun escapes the hold of a Middle Eastern tanker to seek refuge in Boston with some other Algerian immigrants, only to find himself caught up in a world of duplicity, stolen identities, and ambiguity, much like his former life in Algeria as he begins to suspect that he and his friends are under surveillance. A first novel. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.