Winner of the Kobo Award for Emerging Writer of Fiction, nominee for the James Tait Black Fiction Prize and the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction Writer of the Year
Omar Akkad's powerful debut novel imagines a dystopian future: a second American Civil War, a devastating pandemic, and a family caught in the middle of events. For fans of the novel "Station Eleven".
The New York Times says: “The American War novel creates a terrifying post-apocalyptic world just as Cormac McCarthy did in his novel The Road.”Year 2074. America's future is civil war. Sarat's reality is survival. They took her father, took her home, and told her lies...
She did not start this war, but she will end it. In The American War, we are asked to consider what might happen if America turned its most destructive policies and lethal weapons against itself. It is now part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.
