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Tirdad Zolghadr - Plot

Hardback

Main Details

Title Tirdad Zolghadr - Plot
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Tirdad Zolghadr
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:208
Dimensions(mm): Height 190,Width 130
Category/GenreTheory of art
Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9783943365269
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Sternberg Press
Imprint Sternberg Press
Publication Date 6 April 2012
Publication Country United States

Description

A speculative, existentialist fiction on the melancholia of revolutionary politics and good intentions, Tirdad Zolghadr's novel is composed of the logorrhea of online communication and unpublished manuscripts. At the start of the New Zion Empire in 2016--a time of unprecedented dystopic stability with superpower coalitions, generous drone regiments, awesome capital investments, and more soft-power propaganda than ever employed in modern history--Sergeant Jim of the United States is taken hostage in Yazd, once the proud seat of the Persian Empire, and becomes a wildly popular mouthpiece for Third World rhetoric, postcolonial jingles, anti-imperial anecdotes, and anti-Zionist mottos. The abductors (a ghostwriter, an aspiring self-help guru, and an academic) invite trusted celebrity blogger Claude Mann to their suburban compound to generate more hype for their cause and to possibly replace Jim as their new abductee. A few years later, the ex-terrorists reconnect when one of them decides to author a memoir of their exploits and gain fame; all the while, Sergeant Jim haunts them with cryptic, tender, frenzied e-mails. Plot is a paranoiac-futuristic novel and exercise in satire and ontology.