Description
| Product ID: | 9781509852215 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | American War |
| Authors: | Author: Omar El Akkad |
| Page Count: | 352 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating An audacious and powerful debut novel about a post-apocalyptic America, for fans of Station Eleven. <p><b>Winner of the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Literary Fiction</b><br><b>Shortlisted for </b><b>the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction and t</b><b>he Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction Book of the Year.</b><br><br><b>2074.</b> America's future is Civil War. Sarat's reality is survival. They took her father, they took her home, they told her lies . . . <br><br>She didn't start this war, but she'll end it.<br><br>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 <i>American War</i>, we’re asked to consider what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons against itself.</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2018-04-05 |