American War

Resumen del libro

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, 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. Telling 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.

Biografía del autor

Omar El Akkad es periodista y novelista. Nació en Egipto y creció en Qatar. Se trasladó a Canadá al cruzar el umbral de su adolescencia y vive ahora en Estados Unidos. Ha sido galardonado en dos ocasiones con el Premio de los Libreros del Noroeste del Pacífico y el Premio del Libro de Oregón. Su primera novela, American War (2017), fue distinguida por la BBC como una de las cien novelas que han dado forma a nuestro mundo. La segunda, What Strange Paradise (2022), ganó el premio Giller. Sus obras de ficción se han traducido a trece idiomas.