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What Strange Paradise

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2021
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Omar El Akkad's What Strange Paradise is a haunting, powerful novel about the refugee crisis told through the eyes of a seven year old boy called Amir. Amir has survived a perilous journey across the sea and is now in an unfamiliar world to survive in, and live in but without human connection. A meditation on displacement and empathy as compassionate20th-century journalism in the 21st century.

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Omar El Akkad

Omar El Akkad is an Egyptian-Canadian-American novelist and journalist. A former staff reporter for The Globe and Mail, he is the author of the novels American War (2017) and What Strange Paradise (2021), and of the nonfiction book One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (2025).

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First published
2021
Reading time
About 4 hours
Pages
192
Language
English
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