![]() The book takes place at the collision of those two fantasies. The wilderness has come for the South in Omar el Akkads stunning novel. I wanted to take a comforting story that Westerners have been telling their kids for the last hundred years, and I wanted to invert it, to tell a different kind of story.” He continues: “At its core, it’s a book about dueling fantasies: the fantasies of people who want to come to the West because they think it’s a cure for all ills, and the fantasies of people who exist in the West and think of those people as barbarians at the gate. Thats why Didion, and other American writers, found the country so fascinating. “There’s this thing Borges once said about how all literature is tricks, and no matter how clever your tricks are, they eventually get discovered,” El Akkad says. El Akkad explains that he thinks of the novel as a reinterpretation of the story of Peter Pan, told as the story of a contemporary child refugee. Author interviews The Canada Reads 2018 contenders. ![]() This narrator, who is only identified by the close of the novel, explains that they only knew Sarat later in her life, after her innocence was lost and she had played a major role in. ![]() Omar El Akkad’s new novel, “What Strange Paradise,” uses some fablelike techniques to comment on the migrant crisis caused by war in the Middle East. Omar El Akkad on his Canada Reads contender, a novel set 50 years in the future in an America devastated by civil war and global warming. Omar El Akkad’s American War begins with the narrator introducing us to six-year-old Sarat Chestnut, born amid this national chaos in the remains of Louisiana. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | How to Listen ![]()
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