The Unknown Terrorist is the 2006 fourth novel by the Australian novelist Richard Flanagan.[1][2][3]

The Unknown Terrorist
AuthorRichard Flanagan
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
PublisherPicador
Publication date
2006
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages325 pp
ISBN978-0-330-42280-2
823.914
Preceded byGould's Book of Fish (2001) 
Followed byWanting (novel) (2008) 

Writing in The Guardian, Scottish novelist James Buchan described the novel as moving Heinrich Böll's 1974 work The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum into the context of the contemporary Australian city of Sydney.[4]

It was described by the New York Times' Michiko Kakatani as "an armature for a brilliant meditation upon the post-9/11 world".[5]

References edit

  1. ^ "The Unknown Terrorist". ABC Television. 10 December 2006. Retrieved 22 November 2009.
  2. ^ David Marr (26 October 2006). "The Unknown Terrorist". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 22 November 2009.
  3. ^ Peter Conrad (8 April 2007). "Days of thunder erupt Down Under". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 22 November 2009.
  4. ^ James Buchan (22 April 2007). "The pursuit of honour - The Unknown Terrorist, Richard Flanagan's cacophonous post-9/11 novel, has James Buchan reaching for the earplugs". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 December 2015.
  5. ^ Kakutani, Michiko (8 May 2007). "A Misunderstanding, and a Simple Life Descends Into a Nightmare". The New York Times.

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