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American War

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American War

Auteur(s): Omar El Akkad
Narrateur(s): Dion Graham
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 “Powerful . . . As haunting a postapocalyptic universe as Cormac McCarthy [created] in The Road, and as devastating a look as the fallout that national events have on an American family as Philip Roth did in The Plot Against America. . . . Omar El Akkad’s debut novel, American War, is an unlikely mash-up of unsparing war reporting and plot elements familiar to readers of the recent young-adult dystopian series The Hunger Games and Divergent.”
—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

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 policies and deadly weapons upon itself.

Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, and that unmanned drones fill the sky. When her father is killed and her family is forced into Camp Patience for displaced persons, she begins to grow up shaped by her particular time and place. But not everyone at Camp Patience is who they claim to be. Eventually Sarat is befriended by a mysterious functionary, under whose influence she is turned into a deadly instrument of war. The decisions that she makes will have tremendous consequences not just for Sarat but for her family and her country, rippling through generations of strangers and kin alike. Dystopique Fiction Fiction de genre Fiction littéraire Science-fiction Guerre Guerre civile Militaire
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There is not a single person you wouldn't love if you could read their story.

This is her story.

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Akkad is a very good writer: descriptive but not gushy, imaginative but not distracted, thoughtful but not soap-boxy, character-driven but with a well-paced plot. This book is not for the faint of heart: it gets quite dark, but thankfully without being gratuitous... Most of the graphic events are left just out of the reader's view. Early on I began bracing for a book that was just an indirect tirade against Republicans out Democrats. Not so, not at all. Insights regarding the contemporary political scene can be found (and both sides are dissected), however, American War is more deep than picking a side... It is a stark examination of human nature and social forces. This is not Fox versus CNN (I wouldn't have finished it if it was). Unlike another reviewer, I am glad that Akkad did not get caught up in trying to predict future technology —that isn't the point, and would distract and detract. His vision of the future is compelling, measured, absorbing, and convicting. This is a timely book, and I reckon it will be for awhile yet.

Compelling, character-driven, dark, thoughtful

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Regardless of the genre, we're all looking for a story that's satisfying....something that will leave a mark on our psyche. With American War that appetite finds itself well nourished.
The background of future civil war is both gripping and prophetic. And in the foreground the characters are developed with great insight into the human condition rendering them vivid and psychologically undressed before the reader, which in the end makes of the story an intimate experience for the audience.

Definitely worthwhile!

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I'll start with what is good in this book. El Akkad does a great job of creating a multi-layered protagonist. in the end this is a person we sympathize with, but when looked at more objectively is a pretty horrible person. the story has some very good individual elements in it. the narration is consistent and good throughout, except for a painful section which has many redactions.

where I think the book fell short is in being a cohesive story. I did not like the perspective changes in the last third or the excerpts between the chapters. the future He depicts here is a weird amalgamation. the world has suffered much ecological and geopolitical changes, but the technology seems to be stuck in the past and the culture seems to be a stereotype of mid-twentieth-century Southern USA.

overall this is a good book but not great. I would not go out out of my way to recommend it to anyone.

mixed bag

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The story was really good. I found the performance ok, very breathy and that was distracting at times.

If you can get past the breath, I would highly recommend.

Compelling listen

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