Correspondents

By
Tim Murphy
Pan MacMillan
 'A sprawling tale of love, family, duty, war, and displacement'
Khaled Hosseini

Correspondents by Tim Murphy is a powerful story about the legacy

of immigration, the present-day world of refugeehood, the violence
that America causes both abroad and at home, and the power of the
individual and the family to bring good into a world that is often
brutal.

Spanning the breadth of the twentieth century and into the post-9/11
wars and their legacy, Correspondents is a powerful novel that
centres on Rita Khoury, an Irish-Lebanese woman whose life and
family history mirrors the story of modern America. Both sides of
Rita's family came to the United States in the golden years of
immigration, and in her home north of Boston Rita grows into a
stubborn, perfectionist, and relentlessly bright young woman. She
studies Arabic at university and moves to cosmopolitan Beirut to
work as a journalist, and is then posted to Iraq after the American
invasion in 2003.

In Baghdad, Rita finds for the first time in her life that her safety
depends on someone else, her talented interpreter Nabil al-Jumaili,
an equally driven young man from a middle-class Baghdad family
who is hiding a secret about his sexuality. As Nabil's identity
threatens to put him in jeopardy and Rita's position becomes more
precarious as the war intensifies, their worlds start to unravel,
forcing them out of the country and into an uncertain future.

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