With The Rage and the Pride Oriana Fallaci breaks a ten year silence. The silence she kept until September 11's apocalypse in her Manhattan house. She breaks it with a deafening noise. In Europe this book has caused and causes a turmoil never registered in decades. Polemics; discussion; debates; hearty consents and praises; wild attacks. And a million copies sold in Italy where it still is at the bestsellers' top. Hundreds of thousands in France; in Germany; in Spain: the other countries where it has become the Number one Bestseller. Around a dozen translations will soon appear.With her well-known courage Oriana Fallaci faces the themes unchained by the Islamic terrorism: the contrast and; in her opinion; incompatibility between the Islamic world and the Western world; the global reality of the Jihad and the lack of response; the lenience of the West. With her brutal sincerity she hurls pitiless accusations; vehement invectives; and denounces the uncomfortable truths that all of us know but never dare to express. With her rigorous logic; lucidity of mind; she defends our culture and blames what she calls our blindness; our deafness; our masochism; the conformism and the arrogance of the Politically Correct. With the poetry of a prophet like a modern Cassandra she says it in the form of a letter addressed to all of us.The text is enriched by a dramatic preface in which Oriana Fallaci reveals how The Rage and the Pride was born; grew up; and detachedly calls it "my small book." In addition; a preface in which she tells significant episodes of her extraordinary life and explains her unreachable isolation; her demanding and inflexible choices. Because of this too; what she calls "my small book" is in reality a great book. A precious book; a book that shakes our conscience. It is also the portrait of a soul. Her soul. No doubt it will remain as a thorn pierced inside our brains and our hearts.
#82189 in Books Holmes Meier 1985-09-01Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.00 x 6.00 x .75l; 1.10 #File Name: 0841909105360 pages
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Give this book to your High School children as a must read gift.By Dr. John EllisonThis was an extremely critical read into how the Germans treated the Jewish population during WWII. A must read for any student or scholar. Having read other books on the general topic; this was the best book I have read to date on the scope of atrocities against the Jewish population.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Hilberg's the bombBy Kacey SHilberg is a well known author among the Holocaust scholars. My professor for my Holocaust class would talk about Hilberg all the time. Very informational book on the subject. Enjoyed; as much as you can enjoy a book on the Holocaust.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. AN UNEMOTIONAL ACCOUNTINGBy RudyA very good overview for someone who is too young to have an emotional relationship to the Holocaust but needs to know how and why it happened. I was struck by the personal detachment of the author and his view as to how the Jews aided in making it easy for the Nazis to carry out the Final Solution. Highly informative but unpleasant reading.
