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American war : a novel / Omar El Akkad.

By: Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: First editionDescription: 333 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780451493583 (hardback)
  • 0451493583 (hardback)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813/.6 23
LOC classification:
  • PS3605 .L12 A44 2017
Summary: Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. 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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks PS3605 .L12 A44 2017 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001230761

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. 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.

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