American War
06 April 2017Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
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,...
Details
06 April 2017352 pages
9781509852222Imprint: Picador
Reviews
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
So sharply observed . . . hard to resist.Sunday Times
This is extremely good . . . Basically was hoping for my train to be delayedSarah Perry
This is an outstanding book – 1984 meets The Handmaid’s Tale – that feels closer to reality than it possibly should.Prima
