Chain-Gang All-Stars

'America's new Hunger Games' SUNDAY TIMES

De: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Narrado por: Shayna Small, Michael Crouch, Lee Osorio, Aaron Goodson

Welcome to Chain-Gang All-Stars - the popular and highly controversial programme inside America's prison system. In packed arenas, watched by millions of live-stream viewers, 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. As she prepares for her final encounters, as protestors gather at the gates, and as the programme's corporate owners stack the odds against her - will the price be simply too high?

Reseñas de la Crítica

Criminally entertaining.

Adjei-Brenyah's acerbic vision lands like a lightning bolt of truth.

Grimly funny, epically violent and - at times - surprisingly tender. Quite the ride.

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)

A sort of The Hunger Games meets Gladiator meets WWE meets the modern private prison system.

Like Orwell's 1984 and Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Adjei-Brenyah's book presents a dystopian vision so upsetting and illuminating that it should permanently shift our understanding of who we are and what we're capable of doing... Shockingly intimate and moving.

Compelling... The range of different narrators provides a smart 360-degree perspective of the too-familiar society that demands murder for entertainment.

A brutal, heart-wrenching story that feels so close to reality.

A hugely imaginative read - the world-building is masterful... Unmissable.

One of the most exciting young writers in America. (George Saunders, author of LINCOLN IN THE BARDO)

The reason some people are eating this low

Is because they can’t handle a hook that challenges their conceptions. While this is a great take on the hunger games concept, it’s also a brutal takedown of the current American justice system and its oppression of POC. It’s a great listen, but also a challenging one.

Beautifully heartbreakingly truthful

I had to start it again because I thought I could listen and do other things. Allowed the words and voices to draw me into the world.
Loved every single bit of it.

beautifully challenging

I have never read a more challenging book, challenging as in it made me really question my own views. It was beautiful and important and eye opening and often difficult to look directly at. I know this is classified as Sci-fi but it is not far from truth.