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STATE OF FEAR; FICTION: In a post-9/11 world where everyone is watching and being watched, a freelance journalist begins to question the believability of a famous Holocaust memoirist.

Publication: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
Publication Date: 11-FEB-07
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: STATE OF FEAR; FICTION: In a post-9/11 world where everyone is watching and being watched, a freelance journalist begins to question the believability of a famous Holocaust memoirist.(ENTERTAINMENT)

Article Excerpt
Byline: John Freeman

Special to the Star Tribune

In an editorial last year, Jonathan Raban wrote: "In the last few years, most of us - even instinctive technophobes like me - have become practiced in the dark art of surveillance." The English expatriate, who lives in Seattle, went on to describe how Google enables us to give our dates a thorough background check. And he expressed disbelief that the National Security Agency's wiretaps of domestic phone calls caused so little outcry in the United States. We would pay for this erosion of our privacy, he warned.

If Raban's new novel, "Surveillance," is to be believed, perhaps we've already begun to foot the bill. Set in Seattle in...

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