The Rage and the Pride

With The Rage and the Pride, Oriana Fallaci breaks a silence that has lasted for ten years. She breaks it in the wake of the apocalypse that, on the morning of ...September 11th 2001, not far from her home in Manhattan, disintegrated the Twin Towers and incinerated thousands of people. This edition is enriched by a dramatic preface in which Oriana Fallaci explains how the book was born and, considering the reasons why Islamic terrorism will not end with the defeat of the Taliban in Afghanistan, describes the global reality of the Jihad: the Holy War. A preface in which Oriana Fallaci takes us by surprise, talking also about herself: about her work, about her disdainful isolation, about her rigorous and hard choices. Often slipping into personal memories, enlightening episodes of her life, she talks about the themes related to September 11th 2001: America, Europe, Italy, the West, the Islamic world, the Christian world, us. Above all, us. With her well-known courage she launches pitiless accusations and furious invectives. With her brutal sincerity she hurls the lucid ideas and the passions, the uncomfortable truths and the reflections, the ideas that almost all of us have but do not dare to say, or don't dare to say at loud voice. What in her preface Fallaci calls "a little book" is on the contrary a great book. A precious book, a book that shakes our consciences. But it is also the portrait of a soul. Her soul. It will remain within us like a thorn into our minds and into our hearts. As a writer, she is translated in twenty-one languages and thirty countries. Her fame is immense in Italy where The Rage and the Pride has sold one million copies over seven months and in France where it has been number one bestseller since its publication in May. For this American edition Oriana Fallaci has personally translated in English the Italian text and added several pages, also concerning the United States.Detailed info »« Brief info