![]() ![]() In the process, he is forced to come to terms not only Reconstructs Sarat's life in her own words from the diaries she In world-historical terms, at the heart of the novel is the relationshipīetween the narrator, himself a historian, and his aunt, Sarat Chestnut,Ī rebel who fights and dies on behalf of the South. Premise-that a second Civil War in the US kills 11 million people,įollowed by 100 million deaths after a biological attack-postulates ruin Told by a narrator who pieces together events that take placeīetween 20, American War is not primarily a story about warīut rather, as the narrator tells us, about ruin. Incongruities make this reversal of fortunes on a global scale ![]() In China and the Bouazizi Empire kept sending more." Against aīackdrop of devastation and destruction, such deftly observed yet the anonymous benefactors across the ocean Inhabitants of a refugee camp in Mississippi are inundated with blanketsĭespite the sweltering heat: "there were more blankets than anyone Starkly than ever the subjects rather than masters of the global system. ![]() Figuratively: in the midst of a second Civil War,Īmericans in the secessionist Free Southern State find themselves more Illustrates, by 2075, major portions of the US have been submerged by Literally: as a map at the beginning of the book vividly ![]() Twenty-first-century United States that has been literally andįiguratively reshaped by such forces as the climate crisis and Omar El Akkad's debut novel, American War, envisions a ![]()
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