![]() ![]() Agent: Warren Frazier, John Hawkins & Associates. ![]() Wilson (The Butterfly Mosque, a memoir) provocatively juxtaposes ancient Arab lore and equally esoteric computer theory, highlighting the many facets of the East-West conflict while offering few insights, to some readers’ regret, into possible resolutions of that conflict. Willow Wilson 1 Customer Review Filter Results Shipping Expedited Shipping Available Driven by a hot ionic charge between higher math and Arabian myth, G. Dina carries the 700-year-old jinn-dictated The Thousand and One Days (the inverse of The Thousand and One Nights), which contains secrets disguised in stories that may help Alif remake his world. When Intisar, Alif’s aristocratic beloved, opportunistically throws Alif over for the Hand, he flees into the desert, along with a female neighbor, Dina, pursued by the Hand. I got tired of his bruised man ego, temper tantrums and his crying and wailing real quick. ![]() Alif surreptitiously creates digital protection, at a price, for Islamic dissidents being threatened by the chief of state security (aka “the Hand of God”). Alif (the protagonist) is a whiny, moody, angsty, sexist little sh. It is also a passionate romance and a delirious urban fantasy. Set in an unnamed Arab emirate, Wilson’s intriguing, colorful first novel centers on a callow Arab-Indian computer hacker who calls himself “Alif,” the first letter of the Arabic alphabet. Alif the Unseen by G Willow Wilson is in part a novel about the need for faith, belief and religion in a technological age. ![]()
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