Please consider purchasing this book through Abraxas, our local independent bookstore and an important parnter in the Festival. But it is also a story of empathy and indifference, of hope and despair-and about the way each of those things can blind us to reality. What Strange Paradise is the story of two children finding their way through a hostile world. His new novel, What Strange Paradise, was published in July 2022 from Knopf. In 'What Strange Paradise' (Knopf), Omar El Akkad, the author of 'American War,' offers a heartbreaking novel that puts a face on the staggering statistics of. His short story Government Slots was selected for the Best Canadian Stories 2020 anthology. It was listed as one of the best books of the year by The New York Times, Washington Post, GQ, NPR, Esquire and was selected by the BBC as one of 100 novels that changed our world. It won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers’ Award, the Oregon Book Award for fiction, the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize and has been nominated for more than ten other awards. His debut novel, American War, is an international bestseller and has been translated into thirteen languages.
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