American War: A novel Audiobook

Quotes

• El Akkad . . . has an innate (and depressingly timely) feel for the textural details of dystopia; if only his grim near-future fantasy didn’t feel so much like a crystal ball.

  — Entertainment Weekly

• Astounding, gripping and eerily believable . . . masterful . . . Both the story and the writing are lucid, succinct, powerful and persuasive.

  — Globe and Mail (Toronto)

• American War is a deeply unsettling novel. The only comfort the story offers is that it’s a work of fiction. For the time being, anyway.

  — New York Times Book Review

• Follow the tributaries of today’s political combat a few decades into the future and you might arrive at something as terrifying as Omar El Akkad’s debut novel, American War.

  — Washington Post

• “El Akkad’s formidable talent is to offer up a stinging rebuke of the distance with which the United States sometimes views current disasters, which are always happening somewhere else. Not this time.”

  — Los Angeles Times

• Striking . . . A most unusual novel, one featuring a gripping plot and an elegiac narrative tone.

  — Boston Globe

• Powerful . . . If violence and conflict feel distant, journalist Omar El Akkad’s debut novel brings them home.

  — GQ

• American War is an extraordinary novel. El Akkad’s story of a family caught up in the collapse of an empire is as harrowing as it is brilliant, and has an air of terrible relevance in these partisan times.

  — Emily St. John Mandel, New York TImes bestselling aauthor

• El Akkad has created a brilliantly well-crafted, profoundly shattering saga of one family’s suffering in a world of brutal power struggles, terrorism, ignorance, and vengeance. American War is a gripping, unsparing, and essential novel for dangerously contentious times.

  — Booklist (starred review)

• Terrifyingly plausible . . . Part family chronicle, part apocalyptic fable, American War is a vivid narrative of a country collapsing in on itself.

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• Gripping and frightening . . . Well written, inventive, and engaging, this relentlessly dark tale introduces a fascinating character. . . . Highly recommended.

  — Library Journal (starred review)

• Depicting a world uncomfortably close to the one we live in, American War is as captivating as it is deeply frightening.

  — Buzzfeed.com

• “American War is terrifying in its prescient vision of the future.

  — New York magazine

• “Terrifyingly plausible…Part family chronicle, part apocalyptic fable, American War is a vivid narrative of a country collapsing in on itself.”

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• “A brilliantly well-crafted, profoundly shattering saga of one family’s suffering in a world of brutal power struggles, terrorism, ignorance, and vengeance…Gripping, unsparing, and [an] essential novel for dangerously contentious times.”

  — Booklist (starred review)

• “An allegory about present-day military occupation…He imagines this society in some creative ways…A well-imagined if somber window into social collapse.”

  — Kirkus Reviews