Nick McDonell

Mike, coming from a privileged family, is on a summer internship to Hong Kong. His older brother Lyle has always looked out for him. He receives word that after the September 11th attack Lyle is 'seeing things', and hurries back to care for him.

Winnie relates the events of her twelth year and the many changes in her relationships and in her attitude toward growing up.

Les années à Harvard du narrateur sont aussi les années de guerre en Irak. C'est à travers ce prisme que l'auteur raconte la vie sur le campus de l'une des universités les plus prestigieuses des Etats-Unis. Comment réconcilier l'insouciance de la jeunesse et le drame qui se joue au Proche-Orient? Les étudiants se succèdent avec leurs drames personnels, leur vision du monde et de leur avenir.

Presents the story of civilians who have died as a result of America's recent wars, introducing some of those who died in Iraq and Afghanistan, the rescue workers who tried to save them, and the American soldiers coming to terms with their deaths.

A happily married mother of two in a tenure-track job at Harvard, she has just won a Pulitzer Prize for her book lionizing Hatashil, an East African freedom fighter. David Ayan is her singular Somali-born student. He is trying to become a member of one of Harvard's elite finals clubs. He is trying to understand Jane, his girlfriend from a privileged background. He is trying, sometimes, just to get by in a foreign place. Michael Teak is a twenty-five-year-old recent Harvard grad working as an American intelligence operative who meets Hatashil in David?s village minutes before the massacre that will upend all their lives. Nick McDonell's third novel takes his readers into Harvard?through its dormitories and dining halls, into its elite finals clubs and lecture halls, and within the offices of its ambitious professors?giving us an incredibly authentic insider?s view of this illustrious university. A powerful portrait of personalities all ensnared in the African conflict and of the Harvard campus on which the debate takes place, An Expensive Education is a smart, relentless novel set at the troubled intersection of ivory academia and realpolitik.