Summary
Combining suspense, unexpected twists, psychological gamesmanship and a sinister dystopian future, The Dying Game is a locked-room mystery for our modern times.
A masterly locked-room mystery set in a near-future Orwellian state - for fans of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games.
‘With a terrifying dystopian core and a foreboding that lurks on every page, this is terrifying stuff.’ Heat
‘An Orwellian debut novel that never lets up…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781786090201 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1786090201 |
| Author: | Asa Avdic, Rachel Willson-Broyles |
| Publisher: | Cornerstone |
| Imprint: | Windmill Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 2 January 2018 |
| Weight: | 232g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 18mm |
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Resembling Agatha Christie at her zaniest, this fascinating, ever- changing scenario is deftly and grippingly handled
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 *
Intriguing … Reminiscent of classic “locked room” mysteries by writers like Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers and P. D. James. But its near-future setting and Orwellian setup make it feel almost chillingly forward-looking as well. * Bookreporter *
Intriguing … Reminiscent of classic “locked room” mysteries by writers like Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers and P. D. James. But its near-future setting and Orwellian setup make it feel almost chillingly forward-looking as well. * Bookreporter *
A deliciously creepy novel revolving around a terrific paradigm shift: The job you think you’re doing? That’s not the job you’re really doing. – Chris Pavone, author of THE EXPATS
A captivating thought experiment. A dystopia so credible it provokes chills, and a world that fits the psychological thriller like a glove.
* Borås Tidning *Full of unexpected twists and turns, power games, and realizations that no one is to be trusted … The pages rush past – I can’t seem to be able to put the book down.
* Sydsvenskan *About The Author
Asa Avdic
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.
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