![]() This novel shows the circumstances under which a person becomes a terrorist, and questions the notions of patriotism and terrorism from a different perspective than the Eurocentric one we are mostly exposed and accustomed to. It is in this scenario that we follow Sarat Chestnut as she develops from a young and happy child, who is nonetheless aware of certain issues that arise in both her family and the Louisiana region, to a teenager struck by boredom and hopelessness in a refugee camp and eventually an adult who experiences love, separation and the loss of her loved ones and is willing to do anything to take revenge. ![]() The gulf between the United States and the secessionist Free Southern State during the Second Civil War is massive while a new empire, the Bouazizi, has risen in the Middle East and is the new global superpower. However, this debut novel by Omar El Akkad is surprisingly set in the late 21 st century United States of America, that, at this point, are not united anymore in the way we know it. This sounds like a story one would expect to be set in a so-called “Third World country”. ![]() ![]() A bloody civil war rages for more than two decades in a country whose coasts are struck by devastating floods as a result of global warming and rising sea levels corruption, disease and death govern the lives of many millions. ![]()
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