Windows on the World
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A daring, moving fictional account of the last moments of a father and his two sons atop the World Trade Centre on September 11.
‘The only way to know what took place in the restaurant on the 107th Floor of the North Tower, World Trade Center on September 11th 2001 is to invent it.'
Weaving together fact and fiction, empathy and dark humour, autobiography and intellect, ‘Windows on the World’ dares to confront the terrifying image that has come to define our world, the image onto which we project our fears, our compassion, our anger, our incomprehension.
Beigbeder is a fierce, furious, infuriating chronicler of human iniquity and human suffering, and this book is a controversial, yet surprisingly humane attempt to depict the most awful event of recent memory.
Frédéric Beigbeder
Frédéric Beigbeder (Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1965) es autor de otras tres novelas, un libro de cuentos y un ensayo. Durante diez años simultaneó su trabajo publicitario con colaboraciones en diferentes medios de comunicación como cronista de la noche o crítico literario en revistas, periódicos y programas de radio y televisión. Con "13, 99 euros" tuvo un éxito extraordinario, encabezando durante meses las listas de best-sellers, y de paso fue despedido fulminantemente de la agencia de publicidad en la que era un brillantísimo creativo.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book is gave me nightmares. It a fictional story about what happened during the 102 minutes after the first plane hit the World Trade Center in the restaurant called Windows on the World on the 107th floor. I am a bit fascinated by 9/11 so that is what triggered me to read this book. I never really thought about some of the events in such depth before. It's really a bit heart wrenching to think about all these people who were in the restaurant and literally trapped until either they burned to death, suffocated or the tower feel. They were up there for over an hour and half. Yes, I realize it's fiction, but I bet the story is actually quite real. (Though of course we would never know, as no one in the restaurant survived.)