![]() ![]() Eventually a biological agent is released by a Southerner that results in a decade-long plague that claims 110 million lives. Those events play out amid the morbid scenery of a presidential assassination by a secessionist suicide bomber in 2073, massacres, displacements, and guerrilla fighting on both sides. His deep understanding of the War on Terror from years of reporting informs the novel and how he describes the cost of war on civilians who find themselves suddenly trapped in combat zones, drone strikes, and refugee camps with little hope for the future. ![]() and has worked as a reporter for The Globe and Mail, where he’s covered domestic terrorism, the war in Afghanistan, the military tribunals at Guantánamo Bay and the Arab Spring. ![]() Set at the dusk of the 21st century and the beginning of the 22nd, El Akkad’s novel dissects the Second American Civil War between the North and the South-a result of the consequences of climate change and the use of fossil fuels.Įl Akkad was born in Cairo and grew up in Doha, Qatar, before moving to Canada. ![]() Omar El Akkad’s debut novel, “American War,” is a haunting post-apocalyptic universe where readers watch the impact of civil war through the unraveling of one American family. ![]()
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