American War

Winner of the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Literary Fiction Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction and t he Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction Book of the Year. 2074. America''s future is Civil War. Sarat''s reality is survival. They took her father, they took her home, they told her lies . . . She didn''t start this war, but she''ll end it. Omar El Akkad''s powerful debut novel imagines a dystopian future: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague and one family caught deep in the middle. In American War , we''re asked to consider what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons against itself.

Report

American War creates as haunting a post-apocalyptic universe as Cormac McCarthy did in The Road, and as devastating a look at the fallout that national events have on an American family as Philip Roth did in The Plot Against America. Michiko Kakutani New York Times

Product details

• Authors: Omar El Akkad, Omar El Akkad
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9781509852215
• ISBN: 978-1-5098-5221-5
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); USA, FICTION / War & Military, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Political, FICTION / Dystopian, Narrative theme: Politics, Narrative theme: Sense of place, United States of America, USA, Dystopian and utopian fiction, Narrative theme: Environmental issues / the natural world, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary