![]() The situation aboard the boat gives El Akkad a great many opportunities to explore what is, after all, the great news story of our times: And then we are before, following the fortunes of Amir and his family as they flee a warzone, as Amir, suspicious of his uncle, follows him aboard a boat only to end up in all kinds of trouble. ![]() Discovered among the dead, Amir runs and, for possibly the first time in quite a while, strikes lucky, befriending a local girl called Vanna, who seeks to help him. The novel pivots around a single opening incident – a boat washed up on a Greek beach, everyone dead except the child, Amir.Īnd then we rock – before – and back – after – for the duration of the novel. This time, in What Strange Paradise, we find ourselves in the shoes of a young child fleeing war in Syria. It was a page from the Harper Lee playbook: walk a mile in these shoes. ![]() ![]() One of the great triumphs of Omar El Akkad’s debut novel, American War, was to put you in the shoes of a radicalised person. ![]()
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