{"id":277102,"date":"2025-06-06T12:24:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T12:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/books\/blasts-from-the-past-correspondents-by-tim-murphy-2019\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T12:24:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T12:24:49","slug":"blasts-from-the-past-correspondents-by-tim-murphy-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=277102","title":{"rendered":"Blasts from the Past: Correspondents by Tim Murphy (2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"text\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t9z6e6y4.delivery.rocketcdn.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Correspondents.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-26972\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"Cover image for Correspondents by Tim Murphy\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/t9z6e6y4.delivery.rocketcdn.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Correspondents-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/t9z6e6y4.delivery.rocketcdn.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Correspondents.jpg 327w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"(max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/t9z6e6y4.delivery.rocketcdn.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Correspondents-196x300.jpg\"\/><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-26972\" src=\"https:\/\/t9z6e6y4.delivery.rocketcdn.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Correspondents-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"Cover image for Correspondents by Tim Murphy\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/t9z6e6y4.delivery.rocketcdn.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Correspondents-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/t9z6e6y4.delivery.rocketcdn.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Correspondents.jpg 327w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\"\/><\/a>This is the latest in <a href=\"https:\/\/alifeinbooks.co.uk\/blasts-from-the-past\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a series of occasional posts<\/a> featuring books I read years ago about which I was wildly enthusiastic at the time, wanting to press a copy in as many hands as I could.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second novel by Tim Murphy I\u2019ve featured in this series. I\u2019m not sure I\u2019ve done that with anyone else but he\u2019s a writer who seems much overlooked, at least here in the UK. His first novel, <a href=\"https:\/\/alifeinbooks.co.uk\/2020\/12\/blasts-from-the-past-christodora-by-tim-murphy-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Christodora<\/em><\/a>, told the story of AIDS through the tenants of a Manhattan apartment building. <em>Correspondents <\/em>explores the Iraq war and its aftermath through an ambitious, bright young journalist and her Iraqi interpreter.<\/p>\n<p>Rita is the daughter of second-generation immigrant parents, one from a Lebanese family, the other with Irish roots. Taken on by a liberal newspaper, she\u2019s eager to be posted to Iraq when war breaks out. Nabil is the interpreter assigned to her, spurred on to apply by his ambitious cousin who\u2019s also employed as an interpreter. Nabil and Rita become close, calling each other the Danger Twins, each looking out for the other as Iraq spirals into a chaos of violence, until Rita makes the mistake of speaking her mind about the conduct of the war one drunken evening.<\/p>\n<p>Murphy\u2019s immersive, involving novel is humane and deeply moving. It\u2019s also a great piece of storytelling which left me wondering why he\u2019s not talked about as much as he deserves.<\/p>\n<p>What about you, any blasts from the past you\u2019d like to share?<\/p>\n<p>You can find more posts like this <a href=\"https:\/\/alifeinbooks.co.uk\/category\/blasts-from-the-past\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-block sd-like jetpack-likes-widget-wrapper jetpack-likes-widget-unloaded\" id=\"like-post-wrapper-52859811-26971-6842d29db2c0e\" data-src=\"https:\/\/widgets.wp.com\/likes\/?ver=14.7#blog_id=52859811&amp;post_id=26971&amp;origin=alifeinbooks.co.uk&amp;obj_id=52859811-26971-6842d29db2c0e\" data-name=\"like-post-frame-52859811-26971-6842d29db2c0e\" data-title=\"Like or Reblog\">\n<h3 class=\"sd-title\">Like this:<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"button\"><span>Like<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"loading\">Loading&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sd-text-color\"\/><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the latest in a series of occasional posts featuring books I read years ago about which I was wildly enthusiastic at the time, wanting to press a copy in as many hands as I could. This is the second novel by Tim Murphy I\u2019ve featured in this series. I\u2019m not sure I\u2019ve done [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":277103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[104896,4920,104897,5123,27185,6832,104898],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-277102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-amercan-contemporary-fiction","tag-blasts","tag-correspondents","tag-murphy","tag-picador-books","tag-tim","tag-tim-murphy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Blasts from the Past: Correspondents by Tim Murphy (2019) - Som2ny Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Book reviews, snippets of book news, and alerts about books outside the glare of the publicity spotlight.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=277102\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Blasts from the Past: Correspondents by Tim Murphy (2019) - 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