{"product_id":"9781584351061","title":"ATTA","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA disorienting fictionalized portrayal of 9\/11 mastermind Mohamed Atta and the meaning of madness.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOurs is a century of fear. Governments and mass media bombard us with words and images: desert radicals, \"rogue states,\" jihadists, WMDs, existential enemies of freedom. We labor beneath myths that neither address nor describe the present situation, monstrous deceptions produced by a sound bite society. There is no reckoning of actuality, no understanding of the individual lives that inaugurated this echo chamber.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the summer of 1999, Mohamed Atta defended a master's thesis that critiqued the introduction of Western-style skyscrapers in the Middle East and called for the return of the \"Islamic-Oriental city.\" Using this as a departure point, Jarett Kobek's novel ATTA offers a fictionalized psychedelic biography of Mohamed Atta that circles around a simple question: what if 9\/11 was as much a matter of architectural criticism as religious terrorism? Following the development of a socially awkward boy into one of history's great villains, Kobek demonstrates the need for a new understanding of global terrorism. Joined in this volume by a second work, \"The Whitman of Tikrit\"—a radical reimagining of Saddam Hussein's last day before capture—ATTA is a brutal, relentless, and ultimately fearless corrective to ten years of propaganda and pandering.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Semiotexte\/Smart Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47055917744368,"sku":"9781584351061","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781584351061_p0.jpg?v=1763797151","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781584351061","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}