Omar El Akkad has 2 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 2 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 178 ratings. The most-rated is American War.
American War
Summary
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, that unmanned drones fill the sky. And when her father is killed and her family is forced into Camp Patience for displaced persons, she quickly begins to be shaped by her particular time and place until, finally, through the influence of a mysterious functionary, she is turned into a deadly instrument of war. Telling her story is her nephew, Benjamin Chestnut, born during the war - part of the Miraculous Generation - and now an old man confronting the dark secret of his past, his family's role in the conflict and, in particular, that of his aunt, a woman who saved his life while destroying untold others.
©2017 Omar El Akkad (P)2017 Random House Audio
American War
Summary
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.
©2016 / 2017 Buchvorlage: Erschienen bei S. FISCHER. Die Originalausgabe erschien unter dem Titel "American War" bei Alfred A. Knopf. Copyright: Omar El Akkad. Für die deutschsprachige Ausgabe: S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt am Main. Übersetzung von von Gabriele Kempf-Allié und Manfred Allié (P)2017 Argon Verlag GmbH, Berlin