| Description |
278 pages ; 20 cm |
| Note |
"Originally published in Swedish as Isola by Natur & Kultur [Stockholm] in 2016" -- Verso title page. |
| 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?"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Women professional employees -- Fiction.
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Intelligence service -- Fiction.
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Psychological games -- Fiction.
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FICTION / Contemporary Women.
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Intelligence service. (OCoLC)fst00975848
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Psychological games. (OCoLC)fst01081368
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Women professional employees. (OCoLC)fst01764865
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| Genre/Form |
Psychological fiction.
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Detective and mystery fiction.
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Thrillers (Fiction)
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Mystery fiction.
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Dystopias.
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Suspense fiction.
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Psychological fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726481
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| Added Author |
Willson-Broyles, Rachel, translator.
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| Added Title |
Isola. English
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Avdic, Asa, author. Dying game New York : Penguin Books, 2017 9781524705640 (DLC) 2017018737 |
| ISBN |
9780143131793 (paperback) |
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0143131796 (paperback) |
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