February 2023
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
9h 54m
English
The following is taken from The New Confessions:
“I was walking along a street in the village where my grandparents live [in Pakistan],” Jafar, a student I met while I was in Istanbul speaking at a business conference, told me. “Suddenly the building next to me exploded. Hit by a missile from a drone. People ran out screaming. A woman carrying her baby was on fire. I rushed to her, took her baby, and told her to roll on the ground.” His eyes filled with tears. “She survived but many people died. Many.”
That drone was controlled by a new breed of jackal, a breed of people who don’t risk their lives, don’t hear the screams of the wounded and dying or witness the suffering of innocent victims. They sit at computer ...