{"product_id":"american-war-omar-el-akkad","title":"American War - Omar El Akkad","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"pdp-waterstones-says\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pdp-waterstones-says\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2018.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA post-apocalyptic novel like no other, set in an America riven by a second Civil War.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMy favourite postcards are the ones from the 2030's and 2040's, the last decades before the planet turned on the country and the country turned on itself... A visual reminder of America as it existed in the first half of the twenty-first century: soaring, roaring, oblivious.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, that unmanned drones fill the sky. And when her father is killed and her family is forced into Camp Patience for displaced persons, she quickly begins to be shaped by her particular time and place until, finally, through the influence of a mysterious functionary, she is turned into a deadly instrument of war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTelling her story is her nephew, Benjamin Chestnut, born during war - part of the Miraculous Generation - now an old man confronting the dark secret of his past, his family's role in the conflict and, in particular, that of his aunt, a woman who saved his life while destroying untold others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart dystopian vision, part thrilling war story,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAmerican War\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a stark, visceral and breathtakingly ambitious debut. A former war correspondent, author Omar El Akkad brilliantly taps into the lasting legacy of the American Civil War on American identity, considering how individual lives are shaped by sectarianism and inherited loyalties. Turning the tables on East-West power relations, American War a gripping, page-turner of a novel that confronts the universality of war’s devastating cost on human lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Book Bubble\/Old School Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56716922782076,"sku":null,"price":5.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/8930\/2764\/files\/AW-01.webp?v=1777886942","url":"https:\/\/bookbubble.co.uk\/products\/american-war-omar-el-akkad","provider":"Book Bubble\/Old School Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}