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Patrick Flanery

I Am No One


Nominiert: INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2016
2017. 352 S. 198 mm
Verlag/Jahr: ATLANTIC BOOKS 2017
ISBN: 1-78239-798-1 (1782397981)
Neue ISBN: 978-1-78239-798-4 (9781782397984)

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Set in the post-Snowden era of creeping surveillance of ordinary citizens and everyday life, I Am No One explores how a world without privacy is a world without freedom of expression.
Jeremy O´Keefe, a middle-aged Professor, returns to his native New York after a decade teaching at Oxford, and quickly settles into a lonely rhythm of unfulfilling lectures and long, silent evenings.
His quiet world is suddenly shaken by a series of encounters with a strange young man who presumes an acquaintance, and the arrival of three mysterious packages. And when a haunting figure starts to linger outside his apartment at night, his chilling conviction that he is being watched is seemingly confirmed. As Jeremy´s grip on reality shifts and turns, he fears that he will never know whether he can believe his experiences, or whether his mind is in the grip of an irrational obsession.
I Am No One explores the world of surveillance and self-censorship in our post-Snowden lives, where privacy no longer exists and our freedoms are inexorably eroded.
A passionate, gripping, brilliantly voiced and scintillatingly intelligent novel about that cancer afflicting modern democratic states - the surveillance of its own people. Were we ever told that democracy would entail this? I Am No One will get under your skin, leave you jittery and unsettled, and have you looking over your shoulder. Neel Mukherjee, author of THE LIVES OF OTHERS, shortlisted for the Man Booker and the Costa Novel Awards 2014 and won the Encore Award 2015
Patrick Flanery wurde 1975 in Kalifornien geboren und lebt seit Jahren in Großbritannien. Nach einer Promotion an der Universität von Oxford unterrichtete er zunächst in Sheffield Literatur und arbeitet heute in London als Publizist. Sein Interesse gilt der Literatur und dem Filmschaffen Südafrikas.