El Akkad, Omar - American War
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Auteur: Omar El Akkad
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Titel: American War
Taal: Engels
Uitgever: Picador
Afmetingen: 27x198x131 mm
Gewicht: 252 gram
ISBN: 9781509852215
Jaar: 2018
Bindwijze: Paperback
Pagina's: 352
Genre: Fictie, Literatuur, Science-Fiction, Fantasy
Beschrijving:
A powerful debut novel from an award-winning journalist. A second American Civil War, a devastating plague and one family caught in the middle. Asks the question about what might happen if America were to turn its most destructing policies and deadly weapons on itself
Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, that unmanned drones fill the sky. And when her father is killed and her family is forced into Camp Patience for displaced persons, she quickly begins to be shaped by her particular time and place until, finally, through the influence of a mysterious functionary, she is turned into a deadly instrument of war. Telling her story is her nephew, Benjamin Chestnut, born during war - part of the Miraculous Generation - now an old man confronting the dark secret of his past, his family's role in the conflict and, in particular, that of his aunt, a woman who saved his life while destroying untold others.
Illustrator:
Vertaler:
Titel: American War
Taal: Engels
Uitgever: Picador
Afmetingen: 27x198x131 mm
Gewicht: 252 gram
ISBN: 9781509852215
Jaar: 2018
Bindwijze: Paperback
Pagina's: 352
Genre: Fictie, Literatuur, Science-Fiction, Fantasy
Beschrijving:
A powerful debut novel from an award-winning journalist. A second American Civil War, a devastating plague and one family caught in the middle. Asks the question about what might happen if America were to turn its most destructing policies and deadly weapons on itself
Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, that unmanned drones fill the sky. And when her father is killed and her family is forced into Camp Patience for displaced persons, she quickly begins to be shaped by her particular time and place until, finally, through the influence of a mysterious functionary, she is turned into a deadly instrument of war. Telling her story is her nephew, Benjamin Chestnut, born during war - part of the Miraculous Generation - now an old man confronting the dark secret of his past, his family's role in the conflict and, in particular, that of his aunt, a woman who saved his life while destroying untold others.
