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Atta

by: Jarett Kobek

Publisher: Semiotext(e) (2011)

$13.95

Staff Pick by comrade: LS

A dark and slightly surreal fictionalized biography of Mohammed Atta, one of the 9/11 terrorists. Using the actual man's masters thesis as a point of departure, this novella posits the 9/11 attacks as much as a critique of Western architecture as religious/political statement. A very brave and excellent first work by Kopek.