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American War

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American War

Von: Omar El Akkad
Gesprochen von: Dion Graham
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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 caught deep in the middle—a story that asks what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons upon itself.

Sarat 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, and that unmanned drones fill the sky. When her father is killed and her family is forced into Camp Patience for displaced persons, she begins to grow up shaped by her particular time and place. But not everyone at Camp Patience is who they claim to be. Eventually Sarat is befriended by a mysterious functionary, under whose influence she is turned into a deadly instrument of war. The decisions that she makes will have tremendous consequences not just for Sarat but for her family and her country, rippling through generations of strangers and kin alike. Belletristik Dystopien Krieg & Militär Science Fiction
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Very well written! It tells the story of a future that is not impossible to imagine.

Gripping and realistic

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Near future America is running out of fossil fuels, flooded thanks to climate change, battling large-scale outbreaks of plagues, and op top of it, North and South are fighting another Civil War. There has certainly been no shortage of dystopian fiction in these past months; this one I found particularly gripping as we follow Sarat through the nation's and her own, very personal struggle. The novel may be set in the future, but the seeds that grew into this particular apocalypse are already sown, and the book's vision, as dark and disturbing it may be, is fully imaginable.

Dark and gripping

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Ohne moralisch zu sein, wird hier ein Bild gezeichnet, wie schnell man in der Hassspirale gefangen sein kann. Sehr schön werden dabei detailreiche Bilder gemalt, die zeigen, wie normal Gewalt werden kann. Man sollte hofft immer, dass es Hoollywoodhaft läuft, aber Krieg ist wohl nicht so. Gewalt erzeugt Gewalt, ich hoffe, dass wir die Lektion im Herzen verankern.

krasse Dystopie mit tiefer Botschaft

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It is very well thought out and very Sad which I love! If you're into stories set in a dystopian future you MUST give it a go!
Especially The Narrator with his thick and deep Voice gives it this awesome Tone.

Wow!

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