The Dying Game by Asa Avdic
On the remote island of Isola, seven people have been selected to compete in a 48-hour test for a top-secret intelligence position. One of them is Anna Francis, a workaholic with a nine-year-old daughter she rarely sees, and a secret that haunts her.
Resembling Agatha Christie at her zaniest, this fascinating, ever- changing scenario is deftly and grippingly handled * Sunday Times *
With a terrifying dystopian core and a foreboding that lurks on every page, this is terrifying stuff* Heat *
Agatha Christie meets George Orwell in journalist Avdic’s unsettling first novel ... Avdic not only constructs a fascinating and original plot but makes her imagined reality chillingly plausible. * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *
An Orwellian debut novel that never lets up . . . A heady mix of And Then There Were None and The Hunger Games [and] a supremely competitive struggle for survival. * Booklist *
Suspenseful . . . Like a Swedish Hunger Games for adults . . . A very promising debut. * Skaraborgs Läns Tidning *
With a terrifying dystopian core and a foreboding that lurks on every page, this is terrifying stuff* Heat *
Agatha Christie meets George Orwell in journalist Avdic’s unsettling first novel ... Avdic not only constructs a fascinating and original plot but makes her imagined reality chillingly plausible. * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *
An Orwellian debut novel that never lets up . . . A heady mix of And Then There Were None and The Hunger Games [and] a supremely competitive struggle for survival. * Booklist *
Suspenseful . . . Like a Swedish Hunger Games for adults . . . A very promising debut. * Skaraborgs Läns Tidning *
Asa Avdic (Author)
Asa Avdic is a journalist who for years was a presenter for Swedish Public Service Radio and Television and is currently a host of Sweden’s biggest morning current events programme. She lives with her family in Stockholm, Sweden. The Dying Game is her first novel.
Rachel Willson-Broyles (Translator)
Rachel Willson-Broyles is a Swedish translator who has translated such titles as Invasion, Strindberg's Star, Bad Blood, and Montecore. She majored in Scandinavian Studies at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, and received her BA there in 2002. She received a Ph.D. in Scandinavian Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2013. Rachel lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Asa Avdic is a journalist who for years was a presenter for Swedish Public Service Radio and Television and is currently a host of Sweden’s biggest morning current events programme. She lives with her family in Stockholm, Sweden. The Dying Game is her first novel.
Rachel Willson-Broyles (Translator)
Rachel Willson-Broyles is a Swedish translator who has translated such titles as Invasion, Strindberg's Star, Bad Blood, and Montecore. She majored in Scandinavian Studies at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, and received her BA there in 2002. She received a Ph.D. in Scandinavian Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2013. Rachel lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781786090201 |
| ISBN 10 | 1786090201 |
| Title | The Dying Game |
| Author | Asa Avdic |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cornerstone |
| Year published | 2017-11-02 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
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