How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position

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Smart, funny, and wonderfully irreverent’-Mohsin Hamid, author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist.

Funny and sad, satirical and humane, How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position tells the interlinked stories of three unforgettable men -the flamboyant Ravi, the fundamentalist Karim and the unnamed and pragmatic Pakistani narrator -whose trajectories cross in Denmark. As the unnamed narrator copes with his divorce, and Ravi, despite his exterior of sceptical flamboyance falls deeply in love with a beautiful woman who is incapable of responding in kind, Karim-their landlord-goes on with his job as a cab-driver and his regular Friday Quran sessions. But is he going on with something else? Who is Karim? Why does he disappear suddenly at times or receive mysterious phone calls? When a ‘terrorist attack’ takes place in town, all three men find themselves embroiled in doubt, suspicion and, perhaps, danger. An acerbic commentary on the times, How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position is also a bittersweet, spell-binding novel about love and life today.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Tabish Khair

Tabish Khair (b. 1966) was educated mostly in Gaya, India, and is currently Associate Professor of English and Postcolonial Literature at Aarhus University, Denmark. He is the author of several publications, including the poetry collection where Parallel Lines Meet (2000), containing poems that won the All India poetry Prize, and a novel, The Bus Stopped (2004), which was shortlisted for the prestigious Encore Awarad. He has edited Amitav Ghosh: A Critical Companion (2004) and co-edited and introduced Other Routes: 1500 Years of African and Asian Travel Writing (2005).