I Am No One

Jeremy O'Keefe, a middle-aged Professor of History, returns to his native New York after a decade teaching at Oxford, hoping to reconnect with his daughter and rebuild the life he left behind. He settles into a rhythm of long evenings spent alone after a day teaching students he barely knows. Then a strange encounter with a young man who presumes an acquaintance Jeremy cannot remember and a series of disconcerting events leave him with a growing conviction that he is being watched. The young man keeps appearing, a haunting figure lingers outside his apartment at night, and mysterious packages begin to arrive. As his grip on reality seems to shift and turn, Jeremy struggles to know whether he can believe what he is experiencing, or whether his mind is in the grip of an irrational obsession. I Am No One explores the tenuous link between fear and paranoia in our post-Snowden lives: a world of surveillance and self-censorship, where privacy no longer exists and our freedoms are inexorably eroded A Mesmerizing Novel About Memory, Privacy, Fear, And What Happens When Our Past Catches Up With Us. After A Decade Living In England, Jeremy O'keefe Returns To New York, Where He Has Been Hired As A Professor Of German History At New York University. Though Comfortable In His New Life, And Happy To Be Near His Daughter Once Again, Jeremy Continues To Feel The Quiet Pangs Of Loneliness. Walking Through The City At Night, It's As Though He Could Disappear And No One Would Even Notice. But Soon, Jeremy's Life Begins Taking Strange Turns: Boxes Containing Records Of His Online Activity Are Delivered To His Apartment, A Young Man Seems To Be Following Him, And His Elderly Mother Receives Anonymous Phone Calls Slandering Her Son. Why, He Wonders, Would Anyone Want To Watch Him So Closely, And, Even More Upsetting, Why Would They Alert Him To The Fact That He Was Being Watched? As Jeremy Takes Stock Of The Entanglements That Marked His Years Abroad, He Wonders If He Has Unwittingly Committed A Crime So Serious That He Might Soon Be Faced With His Own Denaturalization. Moving Towards A Shattering Reassessment Of What It Means To Be Free In A Time Of Ever More Intrusive Surveillance, Jeremy Is Forced To Ask Himself Whether He Is 'no One', As He Believes, Or A Traitor Not Just To His Country But To Everyone Around Him-- Patrick Flanery. Shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award 2016 Jeremy O'Keefe, a middle-aged Professor, returns to his native New York after a decade teaching at Oxford, and quickly settles into a lonely rhythm of unfulfilling lectures and long, silent evenings. His quiet world is suddenly shaken by a series of encounters with a strange young man who presumes an acquaintance, and the arrival of three mysterious packages. And when a haunting figure starts to linger outside his apartment at night, his chilling conviction that he is being watched is seemingly confirmed. As Jeremy's grip on reality shifts and turns, he fears that he will never know whether he can believe his experiences, or whether his mind is in the grip of an irrational obsession. I Am No One explores the world of surveillance and self-censorship in our post-Snowden lives, where privacy no longer exists and our freedoms are inexorably eroded. Een universitair geschiedenisdocent in New York voelt zich in de gaten gehouden door een onbekende nadat hij anonieme pakketten ontvangt met stapels prints van persoonlijke telefoongesprekkken en e-mails. NL-ZmNBD