Windows on the World (novel)

First edition (publ. Grasset)

Windows on the World is a novel written by Frédéric Beigbeder, and was first published in France in 2003. The English translation by Frank Wynne was released on March 30, 2005 by Miramax Books.

Plot summary[]

The novel alternates between two voices: the first Carthew Yorsten, a Texan realtor accompanied by his two sons (ages 7 and 9) who are having a tourist-style breakfast at Windows on the World restaurant on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center on the morning of the September 11 attacks; the second, the voice of the author writing the story while having breakfast at a restaurant atop a Paris skyscraper (Tour Montparnasse). Each chapter, averaging three pages apiece, represents one minute from 8:30am – just before the time the building is hit at 8:46am – to 10:29, just after its collapse at 10:28am.

Prizes[]

The novel debuted at number 2 on the French best seller list and won the prestigious Prix Interallié in 2003^{[citation needed]}.

It won the 2005 Independent Prize for Foreign Fiction. ^[1]

Independent literary editor and judge Boyd Tonkin said: "Frederic Beigbeder's winning novel pulls off the impossible - it creates fiction about the tragedy of 11 September and our responses to it," ^[1]

See also[]

• List of cultural references to the September 11 attacks

References[]

External links[]

• Review from complete review
• Review from 3:AM Magazine

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