For fans of Exit West and The Underground Railroad and from the widely acclaimed author of American War comes a profoundly moving novel examining the global refugee crisis through a child's lens.
From the widely acclaimed, best-selling author of American War: a new novel-beautifully written, unrelentingly dramatic, and profoundly moving-that looks at the global refugee crisis through the eyes of a child."It is one thing to put a human face on a migrant crisis and another to do so in so compelling a way that a reader simply cannot put your book down." -Gish Jen, author of The Resisters More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small...
For fans of Exit West and The Underground Railroad and from the widely acclaimed author of American War comes a profoundly moving novel examining the global refugee crisis through a child's lens.
From the widely acclaimed author of American War, a beautifully written, unrelentingly dramatic and profoundly moving novel that brings the global refugee crisis down to the level of a child's eyes.
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE GUARDIAN, THE OBSERVER, NEW YORK TIMES, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE , THE WASHINGTON POST'American War creates as haunting a post-apocalyptic universe as Cormac McCarthy did in The Road, and as devastating a look at the fallout that national events have on an American family as Philip Roth did in The Plot Against America.' Michiko Kakutani, New York Times2074AMERICA'S FUTURE IS CIVIL WAR.SARAT'S REALITY IS SURVIVAL.THE...
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEARGUARDIANOBSERVERNEW YORK TIMESSAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLEWASHINGTON POST2074 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.‘[American War] creates as haunting a post-apocalyptic universe as Cormac McCarthy did in The Road, and as devastating a look at the fallout that national events have on an American fa...
Louisiana, 2074. Sarat Chestnut is pas zes als de Tweede Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog uitbreekt in Amerika. Fossiele brandstoffen zijn verboden, Louisiana staat half onder water, en overal breken ziektes uit en zoemen stuurloze drones rond. Als haar vader wordt vermoord, gaan Sarat en haar familie gedwongen een vluchtelingenkamp in. Hier groeit Sarat op. Van een eigenzinnig kind verandert ze in een jong meisje vol woede. En dan ontmoet ze een myst...
