The Convert

Deborah Baker

ISBN 10: 1555976271 / ISBN 13: 9781555976279

Published by Graywolf Press,U.S., US, 2012

About this Item

What drives a young woman raised in a postwar New York City suburb to convert to Islam, abandon her country and Jewish faith, and embrace a life of exile in Pakistan? The Convert tells the story of how Margaret Marcus of Larchmont became Maryam Jameelah of Lahore, one of the most trenchant and celebrated voices of Islam's argument with the West. Like many compelling and true tales, The Convert is stranger than fiction. It is both a gripping story of a life lived on the radical edge and a profound meditation on the roots of terror in our age of dread.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Convert
• Publisher: Graywolf Press,U.S., US
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1555976271
• ISBN 13: 9781555976279
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 334 grams

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Synopsis

*A 2011 National Book Award Finalist*

A spellbinding story of renunciation, conversion, and radicalism from Pulitzer Prize-finalist biographer Deborah Baker

What drives a woman raised in a postwar New York City suburb to convert to Islam, abandon her country and Jewish faith, and embrace a life of permanent exile in Pakistan? The Convert, a finalist for the National Book Award and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2011, tells the gripping story of how Margaret Marcus of Larchmont became Maryam Jameelah of Lahore.

About the Author

Deborah Baker is the author of In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, as well as A Blue Hand: The Beats in India. She divides her time between Goa and Brooklyn.