Product Description
Chain-Gang All-Stars
Author: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Format: Paperback
Fight for Freedom. Fight for Love. Welcome to the Killing Ground.
Enter a world where, livestreamed to millions, prisoners fight like gladiators for the ultimate prize: their freedom.
'America's new Hunger Games' — Sunday Times
'So good. This one is from the heart' — Stephen King
**Shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award**
**Shortlisted for the Tiktok Book Awards**
Fan-favourite female stars Loretta Thurwar and Hamara 'Hurricane Staxxx' Stacker are teammates and lovers. Thurwar is nearing the end of her time on the circuit, free in just a few matches, a fact she carries as heavily as her lethal hammer. But as protestors clash with the baying crowds and the programme's corporate owners stack the odds against her - will the price be simply too high?
'Brutal, thrilling, devastating and beautiful' — The Times
'So compelling - right up to the final, fatal blow' — Sunday Telegraph
'Defiant, awe-inspiring' — Jessamine Chan
'Vividly imaginative and startling' — ELLE
'The new maestro of dystopian lit' — Wired
'A pure fire page turner' — Max Porter
Shortlisted for the TikTok Book Awards, International Book of the Year, 2024
About the Author
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah was raised in Spring Valley, New York, and now lives in the Bronx. His debut collection, Friday Black, was a New York Times bestseller, won the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Award and the Dylan Thomas Prize. His first novel Chain-Gang All-Stars was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction, shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize and the Books Are My Bag Awards, and selected as a New York Times Top Ten Books of the Year. Adjei-Brenyah is a National Book Foundation’s ‘5 Under 35’ honoree.
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