IN CONVERSATION

Eden Niknafs

Eden Niknafs is the voice in the book's closing conversation on war in fiction.

Portrait of Eden Niknafs.

War in fiction

The book ends not with another speech but with a conversation. Eden and the author read war as fiction has imagined it, and set that beside the real speeches in the rest of the book.

It is the book's fiction-and-reality pairing: a way of reading the made-up story of war next to the real language used to wage it.