Time flies... another year has passed... it's really hard to believe that 8 years have gone by.
Sometimes things happen that we have no wish to be apart of. And 9/11 is one of them.
I’m sure the thousands of souls who perished when 4 planes got taken over and turned into deadly killing and destroying machines would have chosen to not be a part of that infamous day of 9/11. I’m sure their families, friends, wives, husbands, children – born and those yet to be born would have strongly elected for them to be excluded from the cast as well. But there are times when things happen that are beyond our control. And for some, this loss of control is easy to handle.
While I may not have been directly involved or connected, my life has been affected one way or another for it has and will continue to go down in history as the day the world changed.
We can remember this day, 8 years later, by reflecting on where we were, what we were doing, watching the telly for the anniversary ceremony at ground-zero.
Or we could move out of the box and read a post-9/11 book. Which, while may most likely be a fictional book, will also probably bring us back to that day, that place, in a dimension that has not be televised the world over.
Here's my pick of my favourite post-9/11 fiction, in no particular order:
1) Saturday ~ Ian McEwan
Set on one particular day, 2 years after 9/11,
Saturday re-amplifies that what happened many thousand of miles away will still find a way of changing your life.
2) The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid
Set against the backdrop of a bazaar in Lahore, Pakistan, we follow this monologue of Changez, a Pakistani in his late twenties and an unnamed American whom as he chanced upon, looking lost and in need of a soothing cup of tea.
(Full review available below)
3) Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
Oskar, a nine-year old boy living in
And Oskar will paint a vivid image of all the children who had lost a parent that day, and the questions they will continue to ask till the end of their time.
There maybe plenty of other post-9/11 fiction out there but I feel that these 3 would give you a varying perspective on the day the world changed.
I hope you enjoy them as much as I did.
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