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The Moment Before : A Novel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Makansi, Jason.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prisoners of war.
- Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp.
- Fathers and daughters--Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (360 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Amphorae Publishing Group, LLC, 2018.
- Summary:
- America's global ambitions are reduced to one father, his daughter, and the two men who seek to reunite them.The unflinching story of an American-Arab's life in limbo.Tricked by the two people closest to him, Elias Haddad leaves his beloved daughter Cheryl Halia for what he believes is a short trip home to Syria to visit his dying father. Largely ignorant of Middle East politics, Elias is detained upon arrival in Damascus and conscripted into Assad's army, beginning a forty-year geopolitical odyssey from hell which culminates in his captivity in Guantanamo during America's post-9/11 War on Terror.In her search for her father, Cheryl meets John Veranda, an idealistic lawyer who risks his family's land, his marriage, and his aspirations for his hometown's future for a relationship with Cheryl neither are prepared for.Stuart Eisenstat, a dedicated federal bureaucrat, thinks he's doing an old friend a favor when he picks John's hometown as the perfect site for relocating Guantanamo detainees only to come face to face with the personal cost of America's global ambitions.As the author of both fiction and non-fiction, and the winner of 2017 Independent Publishers IPPY GOLD and 2016 Foreword Reviews INDIE SILVER, Jason Makansi's writing has been praised as "immensely readable," "entertaining, enlightening, and essential," and "relevant to today's political and cultural environment."
- Contents:
- Cover
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Title Page
- The End
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- The Beginning
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781943075430
- 1943075433
- OCLC:
- 1027174200
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