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Jimmy: The Terrorist by Omair Ahmad [Ahmad, Omair] is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Jimmy: The Terrorist about?
In Moazzamabad, UP, too large to be a town and too backward to be a city, a young man stabs a police inspector and is beaten to death. The last words he speaks are, ‘My name is Jimmy the Terrorist.’ Journalists descend on the town, ‘like shrill birds’, and a long-time resident decides to tell a story that none of them will know. Jimmy was once Jamaal, son of Rafiq Ansari of Rasoolpur Mohalla, a Muslim neighbourhood in a Hindu town. And his story goes back a long way: to the time when Moazzamabad
Who reads Jimmy: The Terrorist?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Omair Ahmad [Ahmad, Omair]
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780670083640
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Music, Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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