Omar El Akkad

El 25 de octubre de 2023, apenas tres semanas después del bombardeo que arrasó la franja de Gaza, en respuesta al atentado perpetrado por las milicias de Hamás durante la celebración del festival Nova en Israel, Omar El Akkad deslizaba en X la siguiente profecia: Algun dia (cuando no entrañe riesgo alguno, cuando podamosllamar a las cosas por su nombre, cuando sea demasiado tarde para exigir responsabilidades), todo el mundo habra querido estar siempre en contra. Su post fue leido por mas de diez millones de internautas.El Akkad exhibe y denuncia sin paliativos la vergonzosa realidad, a menudo teñida de la mas abyecta complicidad gubernamental, de cuanto se nos cuenta en Occidente, y de lo que comporta vivir sometidos al caprichoso y desalmado yugo neocolonialista que ejercen los Estados Unidos de America con la incondicional ayuda de Reino Unido, Francia y Alemania.Haciendo acopio de un acaso mas necesario que nunca conmovedor arrojo, el autor incide en la profunda fractura que se esta produciendo entre los ciudadanos de toda raza y condicion que asisten a este genocidio sin pausa; al cisma entre los queconsienten, blanquean y financian tan ignominiosas atrocidades y los que han perdido toda esperanza de que los gobiernos de los apacibles lugares donde residen, o de sus paises de adopcion, intenten siquiera defender y hacer respetar los valores que afirman propugnar. Este punzante y valiente alegato desgrana el proceso de una dolorosa toma de conciencia ante una encrucijada moral que nos obliga a adoptar un compromiso ineludible en estos tiempos tan abominables. Un libro, en suma, para los que no soportan ni el vacio moral ni la deshumanizacion que trae este consigo y seresisten a abandonar la lucha por un mundo mejor.Lo sucedido, por todo el derramamiento de sangre que provocara en el futuro, sera recordado como el ignominioso momento en que millones de personas que apelaron a Occidente y al imperio de la ley, en el que todos los que buscaron cobijo en la cuna del humanismo y del liberalismo proclamaron: no quiero tener nada que ver con esto. He aqui el relato de una fractura sin fin.

One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This is an urgent and necessary reckoning about what it means to live in the West today As an immigrant Omar El Akkad believed the West offered freedom and justice for all Over the past twenty years he reported on the various Wars on Terror Ferguson climate change Black Lives Matter protests and more He won awards for his journalism and his fiction But now watching the unmitigated slaughter in Gaza he comes to the conclusion that much of what the West promises is a lie This powerful book is a chronicle of Omar s painful realisation a moral grappling with what it means as a citizen as a father to carve out some sense of possibility during these devastating times This is a book for those that have tired of moral emptiness This is a book for everyone who wants something better

El 25 d’octubre de 2023, tot just tres setmanes després del bombardeig de Gaza, Omar El Akkad va tuitejar: «Algun dia, quan ja no sigui perillós, quan dir les coses pel seu nom ja no tingui conseqüè

An audacious and powerful debut novel: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one family caught deep in the middle--a story that asks what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons upon itself.Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, and that unmanned drones fill the sky. When her father is killed and her family is forced into Camp Patience for displaced persons, she begins to grow up shaped by her particular time and place. But not everyone at Camp Patience is who they claim to be. Eventually Sarat is befriended by a mysterious functionary, under whose influence she is turned into a deadly instrument of war. The decisions that she makes will have tremendous consequences not just for Sarat but for her family and her country, rippling through generations of strangers and kin alike.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one family caught deep in the middlethis gripping debut novel asks what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons upon itself. From the author of What Strange Paradise"Powerful ... as haunting a postapocalyptic universe as Cormac McCarthy [created] in The Road." The New York TimesSarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, and that unmanned drones fill the sky. When her father is killed and her family is forced into Camp Patience for displaced persons, she begins to grow up shaped by her particular time and place. But not everyone at Camp Patience is who they claim to be. Eventually Sarat is befriended by a mysterious functionary, under whose influence she is turned into a deadly instrument of war. The decisions that she makes will have tremendous consequences not just for Sarat but for her family and her country, rippling through generations of strangers and kin alike.

O relato de uma América futura despedaçada pelas suas divisões políticas, tribais e humanas. Sarat Chestnut nasceu no Louisiana e tem apenas seis anos quando a Segunda Guerra Civil Americana eclode e

Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, that unmanned drones fill the sky. And when her father is killed and her family is forced into Camp Patience for displaced persons, she quickly begins to be shaped by her particular time and place until, finally, through the influence of a mysterious functionary, she is turned into a deadly instrument of war. Telling her story is her nephew, Benjamin Chestnut, born during war - part of the Miraculous Generation - now an old man confronting the dark secret of his past, his family's role in the conflict and, in particular, that of his aunt, a woman who saved his life while destroying untold other

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