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The dying game : a novel / Asa Avdic ; translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles.
- Title
- The dying game : a novel / Asa Avdic ; translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles.
- Author
- Avdic, Asa
- Publication
- New York, New York : Penguin Books, [2017]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PT9877.1.V35 I8613 2017 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Willson-Broyles, Rachel
- Description
- 278 pages; 20 cm
- Summary
- "A masterly locked-room mystery set in a near-future Orwellian state. The year is 2037, and on the tiny island of Isola, seven people have been selected to compete in a forty-eight-hour test for a top-secret intelligence position with the totalitarian Union of Friendship. One of them is Anna Francis, a workaholic bureaucrat with a nine-year-old daughter she rarely sees and a secret that haunts her. Her assignment: to stage her own death and then to observe, from her hiding place inside the walls of the house, how the six other candidates react to the news that a murderer is among them. Who will take control? Who will crack under pressure? But then a storm rolls in, the power goes out, and the real game begins. Combining suspense, unexpected twists, psychological gamesmanship, and a sinister dystopian future, The Dying Game conjures a world in which one woman is forced to ask, "Can I save my life by staging my death?"--
- Uniform Title
- Isola. English
- Alternative Title
- Isola.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- Mystery fiction
- Dystopias
- Suspense fiction
- Note
- "Originally published in Swedish as Isola by Natur & Kultur, Stockholm"--Verso title page.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9780143131793
- 0143131796
- LCCN
- ^^2017000614
- OCLC
- 962352778
- SCSB-11638370
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library