Título: Armistice: The Hot War
Autor: Harry Turtledove
Sinopse: In the final book of the blistering trilogy The Hot War, old hatreds and new chances for revenge are unleashed on an already devastated world—as the Cold War becomes a roaring inferno.
In 1952 American cities lie in ruins. President Harry Truman, in office since 1945, presides over a makeshift government in Philadelphia, suffering his own personal loss and fearing for the future of democracy. In the wake of Hitler’s reign, Germany and America have become allies, and Stalin’s vise hold on power in the USSR persists. Unwilling to trust the Soviet tyrant, Truman launches a long-planned nuclear strike on the city of Omsk—killing Stalin and plunging the Red Army into leaderless, destructive anarchy. Meanwhile, the Baltic states careen toward rebellion, and Poland is seized by rebels bred on war. In a world awash with victims turned victors, refugees, and killers, has Truman struck a blow for peace or fueled more chaos?
As these staggering events unfold, the lives of men and women across battle lines, ethnicities, and religions play out around the globe. In Los Angeles, an extended Jewish family builds a future, while the foul smell of a refugee camp in Santa Monica blows in on the ocean breeze. In Korea, a U.S. fighter struggles to bring his Korean interpreter stateside as a full American. In Siberia, two German women fight for their survival in a gulag—and begin a strange, harrowing journey home.
From the terrifying global chess match between superpowers to the strength of individual human conscience, Armistice captures a world that’s been split to its core by the violence only mankind can create. Through the thunder of battle, the clashes of armies, and the whispers of lovers, how humanity will be rebuilt, and who will do it, are the questions that resound in this marvelous work of imagination and history.
Praise for Armistice
“The story’s focus remains on ordinary characters and how they cope with their particular circumstances. . . . Readers who savor the patient accumulation of detail around each scenario will by now be thoroughly addicted.”—Kirkus Reviews
“The series is entertaining and explores life on the razor’s edge.”—SFRevu
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “Armistice: The Hot War”, de Harry Turtledove, publicado pela editora Del Rey, em 2018 e com 432 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: Del Rey
Páginas: 432
Ano: 2018-07-31
Edição: Reprint
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 0553390783
ISBN13: 9780553390780
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora DEL REY apresentam um amplo espectro de narrativas que transitam entre a fantasia épica, a ficção científica e a fantasia urbana, com forte presença de mundos imaginativos detalhados e conflitos de grande escala. A experiência de leitura é marcada por ritmos variados, ora acelerados em batalhas e intrigas políticas, ora mais contemplativos em explorações de personagens complexos e seus dilemas morais. O catálogo sugere uma predileção por histórias que envolvem poderes extraordinários, sociedades em crise e jornadas pessoais que se entrelaçam com destinos coletivos. Há obras que exploram desde a colonização de planetas até reinos mágicos e guerras intergalácticas, com tom que pode variar do sombrio e tenso ao aventureiro e cheio de suspense.
