American War:A Novel-美国的战争:小说

作者：Omar El Akkad

书名：American War:A Novel《美国的战争:小说》

中文背景：《美国的战争:小说》是对美国新内战爆发的一种悲观看法。这不仅是南部和北部的战争，严峻气候变化也正在摧毁着这个国家。饥荒和瘟疫在蔓延，大多数人被迫住进难民营里。然而，《American War:A Novel》并不是集中描写战争本身，而是集中在一个只想生存的家庭上。故事的主人公是一个六岁的女孩，名叫萨拉，通过她的眼睛看到这个可怕的新世界。

英文简介：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.
 
American War is a bleak look at a future where a new civil war has erupted in the United States. It's not just the South against the North either, as climate change has also devastated the country. Famine and plague are very real dangers to society and most people end up in vast refugee camps. However, despite the setting and title, American War does not focus on the war itself, but on the consequences for a family who are just trying to survive. The protagonist of the story is a six year old girl, named Sarat, and seeing this frightening new world through her eyes makes it even more compelling.