Zanzibar - Softcover

Foden, Giles

3.3

276 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571214649 ISBN 13: 9780571214648

Publisher: Faber and Faber, 2002

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The year is 1998. Nick Karolides is a marine biologist working on a coral reef protection off Zanzibar - the East African island of slaves, sultans and spices that for centuries has signified both the exotic and malevolent. Soon he meets Miranda Powers, an American who works in the US embassy in nearby Dar-es-Salaam. Nick and Miranda find themselves embroiled in a terrorist conspiracy, one with which CIA veteran Jack Queller has an ancient connection.In Zanzibar, the prize-winning author Giles Foden draws on current events in order to create a contemporary historical novel of dazzling virtuosity. Both an investigation of the idea of paradise and a powerfully dramatic political thriller, it features Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda organisation long before 'September 11' made them notorious.Zanzibar builds on the achievement of The Last King of Scotland and Ladysmith coupling Giles Foden's unique feel for history with his gifts for satire and description, in a story which takes us from the cradle of mankind to the new world order

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About the Author:

Giles Foden, who grew up in Africa, was for three years an assistant editor of the Times Literary Supplement and then joined the staff of the Guardian. In 1998 Foden won the Whitbread First Novel Award for the Last King of Scotland, which was followed in 1999 by Ladysmith - two novels which, according to Alan Massie writing in the Scotsman, 'establish him as the most original and interesting novelist of his generation'.

Review:

'The bombing of the world trade centre in 1993, was I'm afraid to say only the beginning' Jack Queller; 'Giles Foden is the most original and interesting novelist of his generation.' Allan Massie, The Scotsman

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