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- 2023
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- Book Title
- When We Were Twins : a Novel
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- Cultural Heritage, General, Literary
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From their privileged childhood in Egypt, the paths of once-inseparable twins Taher and Aisha diverge early: When the USSR invades Afghanistan, Taher abandons their shared plans to study medicine in Europe, instead joining their cousin, Ahmed, as a medic for the mujahideen fighting the Soviets. As Aisha's Western perspective grows, so does her fear for her brother, who is becoming increasingly radicalized during the civil war between the Taliban and the Northern Alliance. With powerful imagery, Danuta Hinc's When We Were Twins shows how innocence and loyalty to those we love can be twisted by political forces, leading a young man to choose a fateful path that changes the course of history.
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1951508319
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When We Were Twins : a Novel
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Trade Paperback
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English
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Cultural Heritage, General, Literary
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2023
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Fiction
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232 Pages
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"History has many cunning passages and contrived corridors,wrote T.S.Eliot and Danuta Hinc takes us down several such dark alleys as she exploresthe human realities behind the so-called "war on Terror." Alongthe way she reveals just how intricate and surprising the weave of historyhas become, or perhaps has always been. The threads here twine from Egypt toPoland to Afghanistan to Palestine/Israel, and many places in between. Thequestions her novel explores--about love and war, about family, peace, and theprice of freedom--couldn't be more urgent. Hinc's imagination here revs at full throttle, and we wouldbe wise to go along for the ride." -- Askold Melnyczuk , authorof The Man Who WouldNot Bow, "Hinc has written a lucid, utterlygripping speculation expandingour understanding of who hijackers [are]and what motivates them. She provides an important new perspective to event[s] that transformedour lives." -- Rabbi Martin Siegel , authorof Amen: The Diary of Rabbi Martin Siegel, "Fromthe riveting first scene of a man with a box cutter, a flight attendant on a commercial flight to the U.S., and Islamic prayer,we know how the story will likely end. But do any of us know how it began? This gut-wrenchingfictional story begins with a little boy inIsmailia and ends on a plane in despair. What drives some to darkness? Whatallows some to twist the double helix of life/deathso that it becomes utterlyunfamiliar? Unfathomable? Beastlydetails unfold via lyrical,strangely beautiful prose to tell a story we often don't want to face." -- Pamela Gerhardt , author of Lucky ThatWay, "Thebrilliant novel, When We Were Twins byDanuta Hinc, portrays Taher as a sensitive young boy who grows into acompassionate and sensitive young man, who demonstrates his loyalty to hisMuslim brothers by participating in the war against the Soviets in Afghanistan, and lastly, in [a hijacking]...The author doesn't excuse his extreme behavior and choices.Rather, she helps us understand the forces and choices that led him to commitsuch a horrific deed. No one wins in war. We all lose. What's most extraordinary about this tale is DanutaHinc's courage to tell it from the hijacker's point of view. Through beautifullywritten landscapes, poetic imagery, and dreams, the author has written acompelling novel [that] underlines some universal truths: we are all friendsand we are all foes. It all depends on what we believe and the choices we make." -- Diana Stevan , author of Paper Roses on Stony Mountain, "Inthis deceptively simple novel brimming with visions and allegories, Hinc has createda mystical work of historical imagination. Ultimately, WhenWe Were Twins confronts us with a demand that politics, religion, and therise and fall of nations beunderstood as a single, tragic human story." -- Maria Bustillos, "When We Were Twins is both a troubling and beautifully writtenstory. It is a brilliant and complex tale of the human experience at theintersection of identityand ideology. Effortlessly compassionate, thenovel restores our sense of humanity even in the face of senseless and irrational violence. Hinc's writingis instantly enthralling with its vividimagery and powerfully convincing characters. She captures her readers in aworld that is both distant and familiar..." -- Dennis L. Winston ,Editor-in-chief of Words Beats & Life: The Global Journalof Hip-Hop Culture, "Hinc'senticing narrative draws us into a world we might prefer to ignore, evendespise. We identify with and appreciate the humanity of the protagonist--until we discover what he has become. Through When We Were Twins , we discover a whole new perspective on someof the people and cultures we find hardest to understand and embrace. The story is fascinating, blendingfantasy with starkreality, and memory with reflection. The message is compelling, and we are made better for the experience." -- CharlesF. "Chic" Dambach , president emeritus, National Peace Corps Association, "Ayoung Egyptian man becomes increasingly radicalized in his devotion to Islam and struggles to resist the call to violence in Hinc''snovel. Taher is born in Ismailia, Egypt,in the midst of great violenceduring the Six-Day War in 1967 with Israel; he comes into the world on the heels of a fraternal twin sister, Aisha. He is awell-behaved, studious boy, impressing his family by memorizing the Quran bythe time he is 6 years old. His bond with his sister, even as they driftapart as years pass, is mystically profound...: "Images are like twins.How are the twins the same? How are the twins different? Where is the summit, where does it all cometogether? The lightness of the mind overcomes the body, the lightness of the body overcomesthe struggle--absolute freedom, absolute lightness beyond time, absoluteunderstanding and connection." Taher is first exposed to a mixture of Islamic radicalismand political dissent by his cousin Ahmed who, along with hundreds of others,is sent to prison after the assassination ofEgypt''s president Anwar Sadat. Taher eventually travels to Afghanistanand joins the mujahedeen to fight against the Soviet invasion--though by moving to Germanyto attend college,he seems to express a desire to livea normal life as well, a peacefully bourgeois existence similar to his sister''s.However, he begins to lean into extremist ideas about politicalresistance, an organic development intelligently charted by the author.Taher is a memorable protagonist--deeply thoughtful and morallysensitive, he disdains killing despitehis political commitments: "But killing someone is killing yourself, don''t you see?...Italways comes back and stays with you. Death comes back. There is no escape. Bykilling, you poison the blood of your children. There is no life after killing. Not for you. Not for yourchildren. Not for their children. Ever. Killing someonewithout killing yourselfis impossible." Hinc''s portrayalof him as a saintly, blameless child who grows into an adult capable ofhijacking an airplane is delicately rendered--it is never quite clear whatultimately motivates his transformation... Asa psychological snapshot of radicalization,this is a subtle work, one that astutelyhighlights the many ways in which Egyptians could feel betrayed, not only by Western powers more interestedin their resources than their freedom, but also by their own leaders." -- Kirkus Reviews, "Childhood momentsdraw us into the characterof Tahir, a cherishedboy who turns from aspiring doctor to terrorist. With brilliant prose, authorDanuta Hinc unspools his path backwards, holding the readers in suspense. We witness what brought him and his alliesto radicalization and the most unthinkable moments--all while compelling us tohope for a different future for such a sympathetic character. Greatcare was taken with researchto illuminate pointsof view we rarely see so close-up." -- Laura Lipson , documentary filmmaker, Standing on MySisters' Shoulders, "Withempathy and compassion, Danuta Hinc's fine novel erases the line between "us" and "them," shedding light on the varietyof human circumstances and delivering the uncomfortable truth that extremism is often in the eye of the beholder. When We Were Twins isa lean, beautifully written, important book." -- Clifford Thompson , author of What It Is: Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Man's Blues and Big Man and the LittleMen: A Graphic Novel, "Danuta Hinc has produceda lushly written,intricate drama between a radicalized Muslim and a Polishfellow traveler who encounter each other in Afghanistan as well as New YorkCity. It's a startling and unexpected novel about friendship and terrorism, love and hate, forgiveness and its opposite." -- Michael Scott Moore , authorof The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast, In When We Were Twins , we are witnessto the horrors of war, and if we can be saved, it will only be by walking throughthe savage beauty of work like Hinc's. Her unsparing prose will lick your soul dry. -- Catherine Parnell , author of The Kingdomof His Will, "Infused with urgency and propelled by a sense of the worldin catastrophe mode, Danuta Hinc's When We Were Twins exposes the tangled fates of people caught up in events they cannotcontrol. The prose finds its pulse right from the start and the reader feel itsanimating force throughout." -- Sven Birkerts , author of Changing the Subject:Art and Attention in the InternetAge
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