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.

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Universe Publishing
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1 Dec. 2002
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13.54 x 2.01 x 20.9 cm
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0847825043
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978-0847825042
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Publisher : Universe Publishing; 1st edition (1 Dec. 2002)
Language: : English
Hardcover : 224 pages
ISBN-10 : 0847825043
ISBN-13 : 978-0847825042
Dimensions : 13.54 x 2.01 x 20.9 cm

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The Italian-born journalist offers her reactions to the events of September 11, 2001, and her views on America, Italy, Europe, Islam and Western civilization, and related topics, interspersed with personal memories.

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Oriana Fallaci is Florentine and lives mostly in New York. In awarding her an honorary degree in Literature, the Dean of Chicago's Columbia College defined her "one of the most-read and best-loved writers in the world." As a war-correspondent she has covered the great majority of our time's conflicts: from Vietnam to the Middle East; from the 1956 Hungarian insurrection to the 1970s Latin America upheavals; from the 1968 massacre of Mexico City, where she was seriously wounded, to the Gulf War.

Her books, which include world-known novels, are translated in twenty-one languages and thirty countries. For this American edition she has personally translated The Rage and the Pride in English and added several pages concerning the United States.

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Roger Clark

Alas - only too true!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 August 2014

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I bought this book soon after the 9/11 attacks. I was shocked by its vehemence. Could this be true? I asked myself. I read Fallaci's other book "The Force of Reason". Again I was shocked by its tone. Again I asked was it true?

Sadly after years of reading more temperate books, studying the Islamic threat, following the news and examining what Muslims say and do I have come to the conclusion that what Fallaci wrote was true.

As Fallaci makes clear militant Islam is a threat to all mankind as it was in centuries past. No amount of bluster will disguise that fact. Muslims are locked into a belief system that guarantees endless strife. They have been at war with each other ever since Islam was invented 1400 years ago. It's the longest-running sectarian war in history. And when they're not fighting one another Muslims are fighting everyone else. There's something wrong with their religion, but the religious zealots are too irrational to examine its faults.

Edward Said denounced this book when it first came out. He would! But can anyone truthfully argue that Islam means peace? Look at its history. Look at what it's doing right now all over the world. The West is under attack. The threat to democracy, free speech and human rights is real. The clash of civilisations is happening.

I wish I could condemn Oriana Fallaci and say she got it wrong. I wish I could say Islam is no threat to anyone. But that is impossible. Fallaci's language may be intemperate, but she got her facts right. That's what's so shocking about her books. People need to heed her warnings.

We will be lucky if we escape a third world war. Millions of Muslims want one. They should try thinking instead.

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Lance Grundy

Passion and Subjectivity.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 April 2008

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This book, while not exactly a `rant', is certainly a harsh polemic against Islam. Fired up by the 9/11 attacks and the continuing encroachment of what she saw as an alien culture in her beloved Italy, La Fallaci sat down and wrote a hostile critique of Islam for an Italian newspaper. The article met with widespread support and, encouraged, she expanded the article to book length and published it as "The Rage and the Pride." Both her rage and her pride come across strongly in her highly subjective writing and her arguments are far less reasoned than in her second book "The Force of Reason."

Such passionate and politically incorrect writing is becoming a rarity these days and Oriana Fallaci is to be congratulated for her courage. The brutal honesty she displays in this book though cost her dear. Faced with arrest in Europe for inciting hatred she was forced to spend the twilight years of her life in exile in the United States returning to Italy only to die in her home town of Florence - cheating her detractors of the show trial they so craved.

Although the book's literary merits are slim, it deserves to be read for its passion and brutal honesty. It is a call to arms from someone concerned their civilisation is being destroyed and who feels duty bound to try and wake up her compatriots before it is too late. In her own words... "There are moments in life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a categorical imperative from which we cannot escape."

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tyrone roberts

A very angry text

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 August 2018

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Starts ok but is a very angry book (as the title suggests). Whilst it raises issues of incompatibility between Islam and the West, it loses any credence with what becomes just an ongoing rant!!

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Laura

Interesting read after the rambling preface

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 March 2019

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Once you get past the preface (it can feel a bit list orientated and angry), this is really quite an interesting book by a powerful and passionate woman who has been moulded by her experiences.

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Mrs. Rylla Dragan

Excellent book. She is a brave lady who dares ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 October 2015

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Excellent book. She is a brave lady who dares to tell the truth. I hope I will be able to read similar books from her in the future.

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Joyce M. Gleeson-adamidis

The Rage and The Pride

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 February 2013

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Oriana Fallaci is surely missed. She had an incredible sense to watch, listen and write. Her life's experiences enabled her to write this book with her true thoughts of what was happening and what is in our future.

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David C

Short but insightful

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 October 2018

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Short book and somewhat interesting

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Joannadv

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 February 2018

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Very interesting read

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