The Book of Jonas The Book of Jonas

The Book of Jonas

A Novel

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Publisher Description

An exceptional debut novel about a young Muslim war orphan whose family is killed in a military operation gone wrong, and the American soldier to whom his fate, and survival, is bound.
Jonas is fifteen when his family is killed during an errant U.S. military operation in an unnamed Muslim country. With the help of an international relief organization, he is sent to America, where he struggles to assimilate-foster family, school, a first love. Eventually, he tells a court-mandated counselor and therapist about a U.S. soldier, Christopher Henderson, responsible for saving his life on the tragic night in question. Christopher's mother, Rose, has dedicated her life to finding out what really happened to her son, who disappeared after the raid in which Jonas' village was destroyed. When Jonas meets Rose, a shocking and painful secret gradually surfaces from the past, and builds to a shattering conclusion that haunts long after the final page. Told in spare, evocative prose, The Book of Jonas is about memory, about the terrible choices made during war, and about what happens when foreign disaster appears at our own doorstep. It is a rare and virtuosic novel from an exciting new writer to watch.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2012
March 15
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
272
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Publishing Group
SELLER
PENGUIN GROUP USA, INC.
SIZE
2.2
MB

Customer Reviews

Braden19 ,

The Book if Jonas

Exceptionally well written and lyrical. I am not one to usually pick up a war based book but this one is unlike anything I have read before and the downplaying of the emotional interplay between the characters is very well executed. I would recommend it to anyone who loves reading one of those rare books that you remember long after you have read the final page.

mochaluv ,

Book of Jonas

This book was really well written. The level of fragmentation that war causes is evident. I enjoyed that aspect, but sometimes it was too much so, to repetitive....Quixote's windmills come to mind. I wish the ending had more meat.

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