American War: Nominiert: James Tait Black Prize for Fiction 2018, Nominiert: The Arthur C. Clarke Award 2018, Nominiert: Goldsboro Books Glass Bell … International Dublin Literary Award 2019

Winner of the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Literary FictionShortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction and the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction Book of the Year.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.Omar El Akkad’s powerful debut novel imagines a dystopian future: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague and one family caught deep in the middle. In American War, we’re asked to consider what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons against itself