Literary arguments float like bubbles in that United States in which Wright narrates and chronicles with the ability to blend fiction based on the most surprising reality. The trick is not to let that reality exceed fiction to end up exploiting it yourself on the stunned gawking observer.
And thus a literature is achieved that can be read as the sum of the most disturbing, sometimes grotesque, terrifying and disconcerting novels that life itself offers us. Wright's usual ethnocentric prism, in which everything happens in the United States, opens up in his purest role as a novelist. And that points to a more international fiction in the style of a Robin cook.
In the transition between the essay and the novel, you can always find in Lawrence Wright that point of conspiracy reading that lovers of the most tangible suspense like so much. Take a look at the world under the privileged prism of this author.
Top 3 Recommended Books by Lawrence Wright
The elevated tower
Initially published back in 2006, it runs through that five-year period from the incandescence of 11/XNUMX to the calm of the great sinister to the elucidated of the truth. Always with that zigzagging prism between facts and more subjective notions of the experiences of intervening characters, a communicative balance in which Wright is a teacher.
The elevated tower tells the incredible story of several men whose destinies intersect and dramatically converge on September 11, 2001. With unusual precision, supported by more than five hundred interviews conducted over five years, it describes the rise of Islamic fundamentalism , the creation of al-Qaeda and the mistakes made by the unsuspecting intelligence services that culminated in the attack on the Twin Towers.
Lawrence Wright exceptionally recreates the transformation of Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri from idealistic and incompetent fighters in Afghanistan to leaders of the most feared terrorist group in history; and closely follows John O'Neil, chief of the FBI's counterterrorism section and one of the few US agents who understood, as early as the XNUMXs, the magnitude of the threat posed by the organization.
Packed with information, with a deep historical perspective, this is the best book ever written on the origins of al-Qaeda and the death of Bin-Laden.
The day of the end of the world
Wright is always so at the forefront that in the end the pandemic narrowly missed his fiction premiere. It's what he has to live from day to day. A clever guy like Wright could imagine that the biological threat of a virus was always more topical and necessary for intervention than the development of the latest iPhone model. But humanity is that stupid... This novel is as certain as the future that may await us.
Un thriller A doctor written before the pandemic about the arrival of a deadly virus that is sweeping the world's population, by Pulitzer Prize winner Lawrence Wright.
When epidemiologist Henry Parsons travels to a refugee camp in Indonesia, where several aid workers have died under very strange circumstances to investigate a possible outbreak of an unknown disease, he does not know that he is going to encounter a deadly virus capable of annihilating life in it. planet.
As the disease progresses irrevocably, Parsons will travel from Indonesia to Mecca in the footsteps of one of the virus carriers and from there to Saudi Arabia in a desperate race to stop the pandemic in which governments, pharmaceutical companies and associations of all kinds are trying to clawing for power amid the chaos and hoping to return home to Jill, his wife, and their two children.
This prophetic thriller confirms that fiction, many times, is chillingly close to the reality of the world in which we live.
God save texas
One writes about his homeland girl with that mixture of affection, melancholy and a certain critical vision. In Wright's case, his Texas becomes our little country for us to experience with its brightest lights, haunting shadows, and raging humanity from which to extract the best and most curious.
Exploring one of the most controversial states in North America from the penetrating gaze and humor of a native. The boots, the trucks, the weapons, the attitude… The status of the Lone Star is defined by a series of stereotypes that are usually a sham as a whole.
Traditionally Republican in essence, known throughout the world for its oil industry and its ties to the National Rifle Association, Texas is also one of the most diverse territories in the American nation. Large cities, whose minorities already make up large ethnic groups, have a Democratic majority and in a few years the state has managed to surpass California in technology exports. However, many are those who claim that Texas is responsible for espousing Donald Trump's political culture.
In an unsurpassed mix of journalistic chronicle, history masterclass, and personal memoirs, the Pulitzer Lawrence Wright offers us an in-depth portrait of possibly one of the most controversial and complex states in America. In these pages, not only is the heart of Trumpland described, but we are also shown a hidden facet that can give us the keys to understanding the future that is being written within American society.
