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American War is the first novel by the Canadian-Egyptian journalist Omar El Akkad. It is set in the United States in the near future, ravaged by climate change and disease, in which the Second Civil War has broken out over the use of fossil fuels .
In November 2019 BBC News listed American War on a list of the 100 most influential novels. [12] In 2021, El Akkad appeared on the podcast Storybound. [13] On November 8, 2021, El Akkad won the Giller Prize for What Strange Paradise. [14] The novel was selected for the 2022 edition of Canada Reads. It was defended by Tareq Hadhad. [15]
American American War: Omar El Akkad: 2017: Crime & Conflict: Egyptian Canadian Ice Candy Man: ... American See also. Criticism of the BBC; Classical Literature;
Writing in The New York Times Book Review, Omar El Akkad was surprised by the direction the novel took: "What carries Mbue's decades-spanning fable of power and corruption is something much less clear-cut, and what starts as a David-and-Goliath story slowly transforms into a nuanced exploration of self-interest, of what it means to want in the ...
American War may refer to: American War a 2017 novel by Omar El Akkad; Vietnam War, known in Vietnam as the American War (1955–1975) American Revolutionary War or American War of Independence (1775-1783), known in the United Kingdom as the American War
What Strange Paradise is a novel by Canadian writer Omar El Akkad, published in 2021 by Penguin Random House. [1] The novel centres on Amir, a young boy from Syria who has survived the sinking of a ship that was carrying him and other refugees, and his developing bond with Vänna, a teenage girl who resides on the island where Amir washed up after the shipwreck.
American War (2017), Omar El Akkad, US; The Water Cure (2018), Sophie Mackintosh, UK; The Last Children of Tokyo (The Emissary) (2018), Yoko Tawada, Germany/Japan; The City in the Middle of the Night (2019), by Charlie Jane Anders; Gun Island (2019) by Amitav Ghosh [64] The Wall (2019), by John Lanchester; The Ministry for the Future (2020), by ...
Canada Reads is an annual "battle of the books" competition organized and broadcast by Canada's public broadcaster, the CBC.The program has aired in two distinct editions, the English-language Canada Reads on CBC Radio One, and the French-language Le Combat des livres on Ici Radio-Canada Première.