Globalization has led not only philosophers, geographers, and sociologists but also writers to problematize our understanding of places in order to understand modern society. Place and our relationship with it has been a recurring theme in literature. Over the XIX, the last and the current century literature has been dealing with detached characters, in the form of vagabonds, and auto-exile individuals who seem to have trouble to find their place in society. The changes did not limit to the content of the texts. In the arts, modernity brought as a consequence modernism; an artistic and philosophical movement that questioned the enlightenment thinking. Writers, for example, abandoned the classical way of narrating and implemented the new writing techniques such as the stream of consciousness. In the arts in general, the classical forms were substituted by fragmentation, leaving to the individual approaching the piece of art the task to arrange it itself. In that sense, writers seem to have copied the changes that modernity was producing in the world.
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Keith is a divorce lawyer who works in one of the twin towers and who manages to survive the attack. His ex-wife, Lianne, is a translator and runs a writing group which eventually dissolves. As a consequence of the events Keith and Lianne embark on a journey at the search to return to their normal life. At first, Keith returns to his wife and kid, but after awhile lives again, this time he moves to Las Vegas, where he starts playing poker as a profession. Lianne, on the other hand, do not know what to think of her husband being back home; first, she think that it could be good, but then she realizes that the best for her and her kid is to be alone, as they were before of the attacks. The novel also travels to the past in order to present to the reader the preparation of the terrorists who carry the