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American War A novel
Omar El Akkad
“Powerful . . . As haunting a postapocalyptic universe as Cormac McCarthy [created] in An audacious and powerful debut novel: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one family caught deep in the middle—a story that asks what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating...
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The Ezra Klein Show
The novel imagined a future conflict that expands the moral imagination and gives dignity to those targeted by the war on terror.
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And that's Omar alAqqa's American War, a novel that I believe expands the moral imagination, a novel that permits in a culture that treats the targets of the war on terror as all but subhuman with dig...
— Episode: We’re Living in the World the War on Ter...
Episode: We’re Living in the World the War on Terror Built
The novel imagined a future conflict that expands the moral imagination and gives dignity to those targeted by the war on terror.
"
And that's Omar alAqqa's American War, a novel that I believe expands the moral imagination, a novel that permits in a culture that treats the targets of the war on terror as all but subhuman with dignity, with empathy, with understanding and allows a voice of frustrated resistance to the apparatus to emerge in force.
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