The dying game
Subtitle: a novel
By: Asa Avdic ; translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles
Contributors: Willson-Broyles, Rachel, translator
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780143131793
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Women professional employees; Intelligence service; Fiction; Psychological games
Work titles: Isola
Description: "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?"--
Notes: "Originally published in Swedish as Isola by Natur & Kultur [Stockholm] in 2016" -- Verso title page.