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• Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel (2001)
• Hugo Award for Best Novel (2002)
• Nebula Award for Best Novel (2002)
• Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (2002)
• International Horror Guild Award Nominee for Best Novel (2001)
• World Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (2002)
• SFX Award for Best Novel (2002)
• Geffen Award (2003)
• Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Adult Literature (2002)
• British Science Fiction Association Award Nominee for Best Novel (2001)
• Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Nominee for Roman étranger (2003)
• Prix Bob Morane for roman traduit (2003)
• British Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (August Derlith Fantasy Award) (2002)

Days before his release from prison, Shadow's wife, Laura, dies in a mysterious car crash. Numbly, he makes his way back home. On the plane, he encounters the enigmatic Mr Wednesday, who claims to be a refugee from a distant war, a former god and the king of America. Together they embark on a profoundly strange journey across the heart of the USA, whilst all around them a storm of preternatural and epic proportions threatens to break.Scary, gripping and deeply unsettling, American Gods takes a long, hard look into the soul of America. You'll be surprised by what - and who - it finds there...This is the author's preferred text, never before published in the UK, and is about 12,000 words longer than the previous UK edition.

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