What Strange Paradise

What Strange Paradise
First edition cover (publ. Penguin Random House)
AuthorOmar El Akkad
Publication date
August 19, 2021
ISBN9781529069501

What Strange Paradise is a novel by Canadian writer Omar El Akkad, published in 2021 by Penguin Random House. The novel centres on Amir, a young boy from Syria who has survived the sinking of a ship that was carrying him and other refugees, and his developing bond with Vänna, a teenage girl who resides on the island where Amir washed up after the shipwreck.

The novel won the 2021 Giller Prize.

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