EAN: 9781529393361

AMERICAN FEVER - DUR E AZIZ AMNA KARTONIERT (TB)

'A subversive debut... Her spiky prose style provocatively undercuts received narratives about
the American dream from the immigrant's perspective' Guardian 'Unforgettable... Rarely does a
book sharpen how you see the world around you  but American Fever does just that. It dazzled me
on every page' Julie Buntin  author of Marlena *The winner of an Asian Pacific American Award
for Literature* On a year-long exchange programme in rural Oregon  sixteen-year-old Hira must
swap Kashmiri chai for volleyball practice and understand why everyone around her seems to
dislike Obama. An unforgettably witty narrator  Hira finds herself stuck between worlds. The
experience is memorable for reasons both good and bad  a first kiss  new friends  racism 
Islamophobia  homesickness. Along the way Hira starts to feel increasingly unwell until she
begins coughing up blood  and receives a diagnosis of tuberculosis  pushing her into quarantine
and turning her newly-established world upside down. 'Marks the debut of a thrilling new global
voice' Peter Ho Davies 'Completely engrossing . . . Amna's prose moves along quickly and Hira's
appraisal of the people and places she encounters is sharp and untarnished by tact' Dawn

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