Winner of the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Literary Fiction
Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction and the 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.
| ISBN: | 9781509852215 |
| Publication date: | 5th April 2018 |
| Author: | Omar El Akkad |
| Publisher: | Picador an imprint of Pan Macmillan |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 333 pages |
| Genres: |
Science fiction: apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic Modern and Contemporary Fiction Dystopian and utopian fiction Narrative theme: Environmental issues / the natural world Narrative theme: Politics Narrative theme: Sense of place |