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A Plan to Save the World

by Ibrahim Fawzy

A child’s plan amid post-invasion Iraq

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A child’s plan amid post-invasion Iraq

Set in the period after the 2003 American invasion of Iraq, the novel views life in Basra through young Hassan’s perspective. His effort to devise a way to end warfare grows into a journey shaped by an eccentric man who prefers chickens to people and messages he believes come from his dead uncle through a tape recorder. The premise brings childhood idealism into direct contact with the realities of war, while framing Hassan’s quest as both an attempt to imagine a different world and a search for his own way through it.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in fiction set in Iraq after the 2003 invasion.
  • Readers drawn to coming-of-age stories that place a child’s idealism against the realities of war.
  • Readers interested in novels about the search for ways to imagine peace.

Themes

Childhood idealismWar and its aftermathPeaceSelf-discovery

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Book overview

First published in 2021, Iraqi writer Hassan Akram's debut novel, A Plan to Save the World, gazes out through the eyes of a child to explore the period following the American invasion of Iraq in 2003.

A young and curious Hassan attempts to devise a plan to eliminate warfare from his homeland, and the world. Inspired by the eccentric Miran, who prefers the company of chickens over people, and messages transmitted to him by his dead uncle through a tape recorder, Hassan sets out from Basra on a quest: "I had to run in every direction, to explore this life myself."

In A Plan to Save the World, childhood idealism clashes with the stark realities of living through war in a boy's mission to not only save the world, but himself.

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