7/4/2023 0 Comments The american war omar el akkadHere, I am part of a minority that constitutes the majority of the world: I am a person of colour. I come to peddle the fictional to a country whose reality has leapfrogged fiction.įor the past four years, I have lived in America, but America does not belong to me. Over the course of a six-month book tour that will cover almost every region of this country, I find myself fielding questions not about any allegorical merit my book may have, but whether in writing a novel in which Americans take up arms against one another I was taking a stab at predicting the future. I wrote the book two years ago and never intended it to be about the United States in a literal way, but its publication in 2017 nonetheless coincided with the death of both irony and analogy in American public life. This May, its owners invited me to speak about my debut novel, about a fictional second American civil war. The college town of Oxford, Miss., is home to one of the finest bookstores in America, Square Books. Omar El Akkad is the author of American War.
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