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Alexander Michael Shakar (born April 25, 1968) is an American novelist, short story writer, and academic. His novel Luminarium (Soho Press, 2011) received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Fiction.
22 de abr. de 2012 · Neurological studies, military conglomerates, and war games? Didn’t sound like a book I’d like very much. In fact, I loved it! Shakar takes on the difficult questions of how to find meaning and be fully awake and he does it without pontificating in a story that is engaging from start to finish.
Alex Shakar’s latest novel, Luminarium, won the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Fiction. It was also named an Editor’s Choice by The New York Times, a Notable Book by The Washington Post, and a best book of the year by Publishers Weekly, Booklist, The Austin Chronicle, and The Kansas City Star.
Whatever your beliefs or dreams, Luminarium will challenge you and make you think about where our world is going. In our current state of rapid technological advance, Alex Shakar posits that we still need spiritual answers, that family and love matter, but loss and misunderstandings confront us at every turn.
Biography. In Alex Shakar's latest novel, Luminarium, Fred Brounian enters a mind-expanding scientific study about inducing spiritual experiences, falls hard for his experimenter, and starts receiving mysterious emails and other messages from his comatose twin brother.
Shakar was born in and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from Yale University in 1990. He was a Michener Fellow at the University of Texas. Shakar attended the University of Illinois and received his Ph.D. in English and Creative Writing.
The Savage Girl was selected as a New York Times Notable Book and has been widely translated. His short story collection, City in Love, tracks the street odysseys of a museum guard, a junk sculptor, an actor, and others. It was the winner of the FC2 National Fiction Competition.
