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Title: Incendiaries, The
Author: KWON R O
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 31/07/2018
Imprint: VIRAGO
Price: $33.00
Publishing status: Active
An act of domestic terrorism serves as
the catalyst for this electrifying fiction
debut, which has echoes of Donna Tartts
The Secret History. Will Kendall attempts
to reconstruct the events that led to this
shattering incident, starting with his arrival
at the prestigious Edwards University and
his initial meeting with fellow student,
Phoebe Lin, who has since disappeared.
Fresh from Bible College and grieving
his newly lost faith, Will falls in love with
Phoebe and watches as she, nursing her
own losses and secrets, is drawn into a
secretive extremist cult with ties to North
Korea. One of the most buzzed-about books
of 2018, The Incendiaries is a devastating
and lyrical tale that asks urgent questions
about todays world.
A powerful, darkly glittering novel about violence, love, faith, and loss, as a young Korean American woman at an elite American university is drawn into acts of domestic terrorism by a cult tied to North Korea. Phoebe Lin and Will Kendall meet their first month at prestigious Edwards University. Phoebe is a glamorous girl who doesn’t tell anyone she blames herself for her mother’s recent death. Will is a misfit scholarship boy who transfers to Edwards from Bible college, waiting tables to get by. What he knows for sure is that he loves Phoebe. Grieving and guilt-ridden, Phoebe is increasingly drawn into a religious group–a secretive extremist cult–founded by a charismatic former student, John Leal. He has an enigmatic past that involves North Korea and Phoebe’s Korean American family. Meanwhile, Will struggles to confront the fundamentalism he’s tried to escape, and the obsession consuming the one he loves. When the group bombs several buildings in the name of faith, killing five people, Phoebe disappears. Will devotes himself to finding her, tilting into obsession himself, seeking answers to what happened to Phoebe and if she could have been responsible for this violent act. The Incendiaries is a fractured love story and a brilliant examination of the minds of extremist terrorists, and of what can happen to people who lose what they love most.
ISBN: 9780349011875
Weight: 300gr
Pages: 224