Uma guerra americana
American War
Em 2074, uma guerra por combustíveis explode nos Estados Unidos, fruto de uma desastrosa mistura de uma política conservadora e autoritária e a mudança climática ignorada pelos líderes mundiais. Em Louisiana, Sarat Chestnut é só uma menina de seis anos quando tudo o que a envolve – a disputa pelos combustíveis, a cidade destruída e os drones que voam pelo céu – torna-se prelúdio para um horror maior: a morte de seu pai e a marcha do que sobrou de sua família para um campo de concentração. Lá, influenciada por um estranho funcionário local, Sarah se transformará em um instrumento mortal de guerra, a peça chave que moldará o futuro do planeta. Não sem antes destruir a vida de muitas outras pessoas.
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. 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.
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. 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.