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A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
GUARDIAN
OBSERVER
NEW YORK TIMES
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
WASHINGTON POST
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.
'[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
'1984 meets The Handmaid's Tale' Prima
'Convincing, compelling and very bloody scary' Metro
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
GUARDIAN
OBSERVER
NEW YORK TIMES
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
WASHINGTON POST
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.
'[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
'1984 meets The Handmaid's Tale' Prima
'Convincing, compelling and very bloody scary' Metro
Omar El Akkad is an author and journalist. He was born in Egypt, grew up in Qatar, moved to Canada as a teenager and now lives in the United States. The start of his journalism career coincided with the start of the war on terror, and over the following decade he reported from Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay and many other locations around the world. His work earned a National Newspaper Award for Investigative Journalism and the Goff Penny Award for young journalists. His fiction and non-fiction writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, Le Monde, Guernica, GQ and many other newspapers and magazines.
His debut novel, American War, is an international bestseller and has been translated into thirteen languages. It won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers' Award, the Oregon Book Award for fiction, the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize and has been nominated for more than ten other awards. It was listed as one of the best books of the year by the New York Times, Washington Post, GQ, NPR, Esquire and was selected by the BBC as one of 100 novels that changed our world. His short story 'Government Slots' was selected for the Best Canadian Stories 2020 anthology. What Strange Paradise is his second novel.
Empfohlen (von): | 18 |
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Erscheinungsjahr: | 2018 |
Genre: | Romane & Erzählungen |
Rubrik: | Belletristik |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Inhalt: | 340 S. |
ISBN-13: | 9781509852215 |
ISBN-10: | 1509852212 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Akkad, Omar El |
Hersteller: |
Pan Macmillan
Picador |
Maße: | 195 x 128 x 27 mm |
Von/Mit: | Omar El Akkad |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 05.03.2018 |
Gewicht: | 0,251 kg |
Omar El Akkad is an author and journalist. He was born in Egypt, grew up in Qatar, moved to Canada as a teenager and now lives in the United States. The start of his journalism career coincided with the start of the war on terror, and over the following decade he reported from Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay and many other locations around the world. His work earned a National Newspaper Award for Investigative Journalism and the Goff Penny Award for young journalists. His fiction and non-fiction writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, Le Monde, Guernica, GQ and many other newspapers and magazines.
His debut novel, American War, is an international bestseller and has been translated into thirteen languages. It won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers' Award, the Oregon Book Award for fiction, the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize and has been nominated for more than ten other awards. It was listed as one of the best books of the year by the New York Times, Washington Post, GQ, NPR, Esquire and was selected by the BBC as one of 100 novels that changed our world. His short story 'Government Slots' was selected for the Best Canadian Stories 2020 anthology. What Strange Paradise is his second novel.
Empfohlen (von): | 18 |
---|---|
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2018 |
Genre: | Romane & Erzählungen |
Rubrik: | Belletristik |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Inhalt: | 340 S. |
ISBN-13: | 9781509852215 |
ISBN-10: | 1509852212 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Akkad, Omar El |
Hersteller: |
Pan Macmillan
Picador |
Maße: | 195 x 128 x 27 mm |
Von/Mit: | Omar El Akkad |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 05.03.2018 |
Gewicht: | 0,251 kg |