Edition |
Unabridged. |
Description |
8 audio discs (9 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
Playing Time |
090000. |
Description |
digital optical rda. |
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audio file CD audio rda. |
Note |
Subtitle from container. |
Performer |
Read by Assaf Cohen. |
Note |
Compact discs. |
Summary |
Laguna Beach, California, 2009. Alireza Courdee, a fourteen-year-old straight-A student and chemistry whiz, takes his first hit of pot. In as long as it takes to inhale and exhale, he is transformed from the high-achieving son of Iranian immigrants into a happy-go-lucky stoner. He loses his virginity, takes up surfing, and sneaks away to all-night raves. For the first time, Reza--now Rez--feels like an American teen. Life is smooth; even lying to his strict father comes easily.But then he changes again, falling out with the bad boy surfers and in with a group of kids more awake to the world around them, who share his background, and whose ideas fill him with a very different sense of purpose. Within a year, Reza and two friends are making their way to Syria to join in the fight.Timely, nuanced, and emotionally forceful, A Good Country is a gorgeous meditation on modern life, religious radicalization, and a young man caught among vastly different worlds. What we are left with at the dramatic end is not an assessment of good or evil, east versus west, but a lingering question that applies to all souls: Does a person decide how to live, or is their life decided for them? |
Subject |
Muslim teenagers -- California -- Fiction.
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Radicalization -- Fiction.
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Iranians -- California -- Fiction.
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Laguna Beach (Calif.) -- Fiction.
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Syria -- History -- Civil War, 2011- -- Fiction.
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Bildungsromans.
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Added Author |
Cohen, Assaf, 1972- narrator.
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ISBN |
1470862093 |
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9781470862091 |
Standard No. |
9781470862091 |
Music No. |
ZEc6gl Blackstone Audiobooks |
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