EAN: 9780063240254

THE LAUGHTER - SONORA JHA GEBUNDEN

Sonora Jha expertly inhabits the perspective of a man so terrified of the old world slipping
away  he can't see the ground shifting beneath his feet. A deliciously sharp  mercilessly
perceptive exploration of power  The Laughter explores how 'otherness' is both fetishized and
demonized  and what it means to love something?a person  a country?that does not love you
back.?Celeste Ng  New York Times-bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere and Our Missing
Hearts A white male college professor develops a dangerous obsession with his new Pakistani
colleague in this modern  iconoclastic novel. Dr. Oliver Harding  a tenured professor of
English  is long settled into the routines of a divorced  aging academic. But his quiet  staid
life is upended by his new colleague  Ruhaba Khan  a dynamic Pakistani Muslim law professor.
Ruhaba unexpectedly ignites Oliver's long-dormant passions  a secret desire that quickly tips
towards obsession after her teenaged nephew  Adil Alam  arrives from France to stay with her.
Drawn to them  Oliver tries to reconcile his discomfort with the worlds from which they come 
and to quiet his sense of dismay at the encroaching change they represent?both in background
and in Ruhaba's spirited engagement with the student movements on campus. After protests break
out demanding diversity across the university  Oliver finds himself and his beliefs under fire
even as his past reveals a picture more complicated than it seems. As Ruhaba seems attainable
yet not  and as the women of his past taunt his memory  Oliver reacts in ways shocking and
devastating. An explosive  tense  and illuminating work of fiction  The Laughter is a
fascinating portrait of privilege  radicalization  class  and modern academia that forces us to
confront the assumptions we make  as both readers and as citizens.

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