![]() The author says that the hope in his books comes from a reality that his culture knows all too well. It’s a century and a half from now, in the distant future.” Although he doesn’t label the book cli-fi, he realizes that, like his previous two novels, the new one will “very much be called cli-fi.”īangkok Wakes to Rain (2019), the runaway-hit debut novel by Pitchaya Sudbanthad, centers a clash of the modern Thai capital with ancient spaces, the rich and poor colliding in stories that carry the reader into a world not too far from the Bangkok that Sudbanthad grew up in. “It’s a story about love and revolution set in the final days of our species. He goes on to say that the term “cli-fi” is now more of a “designation of novelty than it is a designation of craft.” He expects the label will fade away at some point, but the topic of climate change will remain.Įl Akkad’s upcoming, yet-to-be-titled novel is “a sprawling mess.” The story is about love and war, set in a time when climate change has devastated our world. And right now, what it means to be human is to grapple with the place we live in and what we’ve done to the place we live in.” ![]() ![]() ![]() But all literature is about what it means to be human. “I’m not saying that every novel has to have a Category 12 hurricane in it or specifically address wildfires. “I don’t know how you write any kind of story in the world today without having to grapple with, in some way, what we are doing to this Earth,” El Akkad says. ![]()
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