American War Paperback by Omar El Akkad

Product Details

• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart (2018-01-30)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 432 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780771009419
• Item Weight: 362.88 grams
• Dimensions: 8.0 x 5.2 x 1.2 cm

A unique and eerily convincing masterwork, American War takes a scalpel to American politics, precisely dissecting it to see what would happen if their own policies were turned against them. The answer: inevitable, endless bloodshed.

In a disturbingly believable near future, the need for sustainable energy has torn the United States apart. The South wants to maintain the use of fossil fuels, even though the government in The North has outlawed them. Now, unmanned drones patrol the skies, and future martyrs walk the markets. For the first time in three hundred years, America is caught up in a civil war. Out of this turmoil comes Sarat Chestnut, a southern girl born into the ongoing conflict. At a displaced persons camp, a mysterious older man takes her under his wing, and while her family tries to survive, Sarat is made into a deadly instrument of war, with consequences for the entire nation.

About the Author

OMAR EL AKKAD is an author and journalist. Born in Egypt, he grew up in Qatar, until he moved to Canada with his family, and now lives in the United States. He has reported from Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay, Ferguson, New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, among many other locations around the world. He earned a National Newspaper Award for Investigative Journalism and the Goff Penny Award for young journalists. His debut novel, American War, was an international bestseller, won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers’ Award, the Oregon Book Award for fiction, the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, and was nominated for many others. What Strange Paradise, his second, won the 2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize.