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Omar El Akkad - American War, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

American War

Av Omar El Akkad

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Winner of the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Literary FictionShortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction and the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction Book of the YearOmar 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. For fans of Station Eleven.'American War creates as haunting a post-apocalyptic universe as Cormac McCarthy did in The Road' – New York Times2074. 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.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.Now part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2026-04-09
  • Mått: 193 x 25 x 124 mm
  • Vikt: 245 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Picador Collection
  • Antal sidor: 352
  • Förlag: Pan Macmillan
  • ISBN: 9781035091348
  • Utmärkelser: Short-listed for James Tait Black Prize for Fiction 2018 (UK)
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Omar El Akkad is an award-winning journalist and author who has travelled around the world to cover many of the most important news stories of the last decade. His reporting includes dispatches from the NATO-led war in Afghanistan, the military trials at Guantanamo Bay, the Arab Spring revolution in Egypt and the Black Lives Matter movement in Ferguson, Missouri. He is a recipient of a National Newspaper Award for investigative reporting and the Goff Penny Memorial Prize for Young Journalists, as well as three National Magazine Award honorable mentions. He lives in Portland, Oregon. He is the author of books including American War and One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This.

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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.

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