American War

by Omar El Akkad

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“Powerful . . . As haunting a postapocalyptic universe as Cormac McCarthy [created] in The Road, and as devastating a look as the fallout that national events have on an American family as Philip Roth did in The Plot Against America. . . . Omar El Akkad’s debut novel, American War, is an unlikely mash-up of unsparing war reporting and plot elements familiar to readers of the recent young-adult dystopian series The Hunger Games and Divergent.”
—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

An audacious and powerful debut novel: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one family...Read more
  • ISBN10 7559612903
  • ISBN13 9787559612908
  • Publish Date 1 May 2018 (first published 4 April 2017)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Imprint Bei Jing Lian He Chu Ban Gong Si/Tsai Fong Books
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Language Chinese