American Gods
by Neil Gaiman · 2001
Literary Fiction · ranked #16 in category
Winner · The Hugo Award for Best Novel, 2002Winner · The Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel, 2001
Shadow Moon, recently released from prison, takes a job with the mysterious Mr Wednesday and finds himself at the centre of a war between the old gods brought to America by immigrants — Anansi, Odin, Anansi, Czernobog — and the new gods of media, technology and globalisation. Gaiman's novel is a myth of America as a land that forgets its gods.
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