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Premee Mohamed, "The Siege of Burning Grass" (Solaris, 2024)
Premee Mohamed’s novel The Siege of Burning Grass (Solaris, 2024) is set during an ongoing war between two empires: Varkal and Med’ariz and follows Alefret, a founder of Varkal’s pacifist resistance who has been arrested and imprisoned by his own country. When the opportunity for freedom presents itself, Alefret must decide how willing he is to collaborate with his government’s war effort and how much he is willing to sacrifice to remain committed to his own ideals.In this interview, Mohamed describes the long history of violent responses to pacifist movements and some of the influences that…
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