American War (Ungekürzte Lesung)

Geschrieben von Omar El Akkad

Erzählt von Uve Teschner

Amerika in der Zukunft: Der Meeresspiegel steigt, Teile des Landes stehen unter Wasser, der Norden führt Krieg gegen den Süden. In einem Flüchtlingscamp in Mississippi lebt die junge Sarat Chestnut mit ihrer Familie hinter Stacheldraht. Sie haben sich gerade in einem der Zelte eingerichtet und zurück in ein halbwegs normales Leben gefunden, da droht das nächste Unheil ...
Omar El Akkad entfaltet mit großer erzählerischer Kraft die dramatische Geschichte einer Radikalisierung. Spannend bis zur letzten Minute - brisant und aktuell.

• Sprache: Deutsch
• Herausgeber: Argon Verlag
• Erscheinungsdatum: 27. Juli 2017
• ISBN: 9783732451807

Omar El Akkad

Omar El Akkad is an author and journalist. He was born in Egypt, grew up in Qatar, moved to Canada as a teenager and now lives in the United States. The start of his journalism career coincided with the start of the war on terror, and over the following decade he reported from Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay and many other locations around the world. His work earned a National Newspaper Award for Investigative Journalism and the Goff Penny Award for young journalists. His fiction and non-fiction writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, Le Monde, Guernica, GQ and many other newspapers and magazines. His debut novel, American War, is an international bestseller and has been translated into thirteen languages. It won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers’ Award, the Oregon Book Award for fiction, the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize and has been nominated for more than ten other awards. It was listed as one of the best books of the year by the New York Times, Washington Post, GQ, NPR, Esquire and was selected by the BBC as one of 100 novels that changed our world. His short story 'Government Slots' was selected for the Best Canadian Stories 2020 anthology. What Strange Paradise is his second novel.