! Doprava ZADARMO už od 20 € !

Omar El Akkad

autor

Americká válka


Co by se mohlo stát, kdyby Amerika obrátila své nejničivější politiky a smrticí zbraně proti sobě? Když v roce 2074 vypukne druhá americká občanská válka, je Sarat Chestnutové z Louisiany pouhých šest let. I ona však ví, že ropa je zakázaná, Louisiana napůl pod vodou a oblohu křižují bezpilotní drony. Když zabijí jejího otce a rodinu přesunou do Camp Patience, tábora pro vysídlence, nové prostředí se jí dostane pod kůži. Avšak ne všichni v Camp Patience jsou těmi, za koho se vydávají. Sarat se spřátelí s tajemným funkcionářem, pod jehož vlivem se z ní stává smrticí válečný nástroj. Rozhodnutí, která učiní, mají obrovské důsledky nejen pro Sarat samotnou, ale i pro její rodinu a zemi a ovlivní další generace jejích příbuzných i cizích lidí.
Na sklade 1Ks
19,29 € 20,30 €

What Strange Paradise


From the widely acclaimed author of American War, Omar El Akkad, a beautifully written, unrelentingly dramatic and profoundly moving novel that brings the global refugee crisis down to the level of a child’s eyes. More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another over-filled, ill-equipped, dilapidated ship has sunk under the weight of its too-many passengers: Syrians, Ethiopians, Egyptians, Lebanese, Palestinians, all of them desperate to escape untenable lives in their homelands. And only one had made the passage: nine-year-old Amir, a Syrian boy who has the good fortune to fall into the hands not of the officials, but of Vänna: a teenage girl, native to the island, who lives inside her own sense of homelessness in a place and among people she has come to disdain. And though Vänna and Amir are complete strangers and don’t speak a common language, Vänna determines to do whatever it takes to save him. In alternating chapters, we learn the story of Amir’s life and of how he came to be on the ship; and we follow the duo as they make their way towards a vision of safety. But as the novel unfurls, we begin to understand that this is not merely the story of two children finding their way through a hostile world. Omar El Akkad’s What Strange Paradise is the story of our collective moment in this time: of empathy and indifference, of hope and despair – and of the way each of those things can blind us to reality, or guide us to a better one.
U dodávateľa
11,35 € 11,95 €

American War


"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.
Vypredané
23,28 € 24,50 €

American War


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 Times 2074 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.
Vypredané
10,93 € 11,50 €