Windows on the World (Roman)

Windows on the World is a novel that deals with the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 .

Frédéric Beigbeder tells the events meticulously based on the individual fate of a father with his two little sons who visits the luxury restaurant on the top floor of the WTC. The novel is named after this restaurant. The action is interrupted by insertions in which Beigbeder describes his own writing process and asks himself whether the 11.9. as literary material. The author was repeatedly accused by critics of misusing the terrorist attacks for self-staging .