Chain-Gang All-Stars: Squid Game meets The Handmaid's Tale in THE dystopian novel of 2023

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The hotly anticipated debut novel from the New York Times-bestselling author of Friday Black THEY FIGHT TO THE DEATH. YOU WATCH. 'Brutal, thrilling, devastating and beautiful' The Times Welcome to Chain-Gang All-Stars - the controversial entertainment programme inside America's prison system. In packed arenas, livestreamed to millions, prisoners compete as gladiators for the ultimate prize- their freedom. Fan favourites 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 'So compelling - right up to the final, fatal blow' Sunday Telegraph 'Vividly imaginative and startling' Elle 'The new maestro of dystopian lit' Wired

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An exuberant circus of a novel, action-packed and expansive...fuelled by a sense of thrilling, righteous rage. -- Xan Brooks * Guardian *
Magnificent. A radical interrogation of incarceration, racism, entertainment, the whole fabric of American injustice, as well as a pure fire page turner. -- Max Porter, author of SHY
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is one of the most exciting young writers in America. His work is urgent, engaging, wildly entertaining, formally bold and politically electrifying. Read one page, any page, and you'll see what I mean. -- George Saunders, author of LINCOLN IN THE BARDO
A rumbustious satire of the criminal justice system, a book that is far more entertaining than an attempt to convince its readers of the case for prison abolition has any right to be. -- David Shariatmadari * Guardian *
Adjei-Brenyah is clearly a writer of substance, with something to say. * Observer *

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Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is the New York Times bestselling author of Friday Black. He is a National Book Foundation's '5 Under 35' honoree, a winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Award for Best First Book and the Dylan Thomas Prize, among many other accolades. Raised in Spring Valley, New York, he now lives in the Bronx.