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«Nella luce vermiglia del crepuscolo, i Chestnut entrarono in quell'immensa favela fatta di tende che, fino alla notte del grande massacro, sarebbe diventata la loro città.»Quando scoppia la guerra civile, nel 2074, Sarat Chestnut ha solo sei anni, eppure sa già perfettamente che il petrolio è fuorilegge, che metà della Louisiana, dove vive, è sommersa dalle acque del mare e che i Corvi, minacciosi droni che solcano il cielo, non sono lì per proteggere lei e i suoi fratelli. Il giorno in cui la guerra arriva a lambire la loro casa, la famiglia fugge nel cuore del territorio dei Rossi, i secessionisti, fino a Camp Patience, un immenso accampamento per le decine di migliaia di profughi del Sud. È qui che Sarat diventerà adolescente e poi donna, abbandonando i giochi da maschiaccio e i sogni da bambina per scoprirsi improvvisamente troppo adulta. È qui che incontrerà un misterioso uomo, Gaines, che le aprirà gli occhi sulle ingiustizie che la sua gente subisce per mano dei soldati Blu dell'Unione. Ed è sempre qui, dopo il terribile massacro che spazzerà via le ultime speranze di una vita normale, che Sarat imparerà il sapore della violenza e della vendetta. "American War" è uno spaccato crudele e senza riserve sull'incommensurabile rovina che la guerra porta nella vita di una nazione, di una comunità, di una famiglia, di un singolo individuo.
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I struggle on this one between 3 and 4 stars. On one hand, it is action-packed and a pretty horrifying dystopian novel. On the other, my suspension of disbelief was severely challenged by the timeline and the realignment of world power (don't worry - no spoilers). The protagonist, Sarat is an intere Leggi tutto
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A second civil war, a war over fossil fuel banned in the North but in the Southern states they still have plenty of resources and once again do not want to be dictated by those in the government. Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, South Carolina secede from the Union. It is the late 2000's, climate c Leggi tutto
I didn't understand the point of this. Something huge is missing in this novel. There is a hole in the center. Omar El Akkad tells a story of a new American Civil War taking place around the year 2075. To paint this setting he borrows heavily from the American Civil War of 1862-1865 and he replicate Leggi tutto
3.5ish stars This is not your typical dystopia. I feel like that word, dystopia, has developed something of a negative connotation in literature recently because of the inundation of books, especially YA ones, that fit into the sub-genre. American War is science fiction in the same way that The Road Leggi tutto
4 stars I can't quite gush effusively for Omar El Akkad's American War , but not since The Handmaid's Tale has a dystopian novel spoken to me so loud and clear. (The thinly veiled "Fuck you, Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions" message was probably integral to my enjoyment.) Pretty simple concept: imagin Leggi tutto
"Everyone fights an American war." (306) Do you know the experience of diving into a book expecting one certain thing, only to realize part-way through that the thing is actually about another subject? You assume X, but get Y? That's how I read Omar El Akkad's recent novel American War . Everything I r Leggi tutto
This is a novel that hearkens back to the great days of serious and very dark future history, the kind that used be common in SF before it got taken over with fluffy (if dark) YA that is usually a lot more simple and caricature than serious. So now we're back to the good and serious SF, no light tone Leggi tutto
It's hard to say where exactly Omar El Akkad went wrong with American War , because on the surface, this appears to be such a well-constructed novel. El Akkad ties in the story of our protagonist, Sarat, with his imagined vision of a second American Civil War in a way that's comprehensive and undenia Leggi tutto
When you wade into the ever-agitated waters of social media, you realize just how quickly the currents of infectious bile are flowing. Follow the tributaries of today’s political combat a few decades into the future and you might arrive at something as terrifying as Omar El Akkad’s debut novel, “Ame Leggi tutto
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