A Day and a Night and a Day - Couverture souple

'The basic situation is so strong, the topical relevance so obvious, that Glen Duncan's novel demands our attention' Mail on Sunday
Augustus Rose, mixed-race New York restaurateur and unlikely terrorist, is being tortured by a US interrogator in a Moroccan cell. Without hope of escape, he raises the only shield he has against his emotional and physical assault: memory. Outshining all is the memory of stunning, headstrong Selina, and the epic taboo love affair that set in motion a lifetime of heartbreak and wanderlust, leading Augustus from Manhattan, via El Salvador, to Barcelona - and the bomb blast that propels him into a complex quest for revenge.
'An engrossing, disturbing, weirdly seductive novel that combines the nagging drive of a thriller with the account of a sexy, impassioned affair' Independent on Sunday
'Clairvoyant about how people live now ... a probe deep into the heart of our age' New York Times
'Powerful and terrifying ... confirms Duncan as a major literary talent' GQ
THUMBNAILS of I,LUcifer and The Bloodstone Papers

This is the story of Augustus Rose -- half African-American, half Italian; journalist, lover, restauranteur, unlikely terrorist -- and his interrogator, Harper, a Grand Inquisitor armed with twenty-first century cruelty, clarity and charisma. As Harper's assault on his body and soul intensifies, Augustus raises the only shield he has: memory. His mind turns to the women in his life, from his outcast mother, to the vigilante who recruited him, to the last female tenderness he's ever likely to know. Outshining them all is the memory of the stunning, wealthy and white Selina, and the love affair that began in 1960s Manhattan -- an epic, taboo mix of politics and passion that would lead Augustus from Harlem to Greenwich Village, from El Salvador to Barcelona, from Morocco to a bleak Scottish island where hope or death must overcome...