Rejection

Tony Tulathimutte author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers

Published:23rd Apr '26

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the addictive, literary sensation that everyone is talking about

‘The funniest book I’ve read for a long time’ DAVID NICHOLLS

‘Utterly ruthless’ NEW YORK TIMES

‘Addictive … I loved it!’ RUFI THORPE

‘Twistedly funny’ VINCENZO LATRONICO

‘Razor-sharp … impossible to put down’ JACK EDWARDS

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION

Written with the accomplished authority of a modern classic and the manic intensity of a loser's manifesto, Rejection radically redefines what it means to be rejected by lovers, friends, society and oneself.

We see a tryhard male feminist's passionate allyship turn to a furious nihilism as he realises that his feminism isn’t getting him laid and a young woman’s unrequited crush spirals into borderline obsession. As these characters pop up in each other’s dating apps and social media feeds, or meet in dimly lit bars and bedrooms, they reveal the ways that our delusions can warp our desire for connection.

A Book of the Year in Guardian, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New Yorker, TIME, Vanity Fair, GQ, Service95 and more.

A Jack Edwards Inklings Book Club Pick

‘Extremely dark … laugh-out-loud funny’ GUARDIAN

‘Divinely appalling’ SCOTSMAN

‘Perversely funny’ FINANCIAL TIMES

‘The funniest, darkest thing’ ST. VINCENT

‘Blistering … takes a magnifying glass to the mind of the internet age’ VOGUE

‘An excruciating examination of modern losers in psychic distress’ THE TIMES

‘Tulathimutte is a pervert and a madman and a stone-cold genius’ CARMEN MARIA MACHADO, author of In the Dream House

‘You will be crawling out of your skin’ JIA TOLENTINO, author of Trick Mirror

‘Mad, madcap genius’ GARTH GREENWELL, author of Small Rain

Praise for Rejection:

Perversely funny and piercingly perceptiveFinancial Times

A hilarious, disgusting work of geniusInterview

‘At once entertaining and acute … capture[s] the spirit of our doomscrolling ageGuardian

So sharp and shrewd and entertaining’ David Nicholls, author of You Are Here

Perverse, profane and profound … will make your skin crawl’ Esquire

Divinely appalling … It is quite difficult to laugh so hard while also being goldfish-mouthed at its audacity’ Scotsman

Audacious, original and highly disturbing … an incandescent satire’ New York Times Magazine

‘Explores modern loneliness and atomisation with startling lucidityService95

‘A pitiless examination of hypocrisies and self-deceptions’ Dazed

Obsessively readable, acerbic, Foster Wallace-inflected’ Vanity Fair

‘I have never laughed as hard reading a work of fiction, maybe ever … brain-meltingly goodWired

‘Tulathimutte prises open and peers into the ugliest parts of the modern psyche … viscerally uncomfortableTLS

‘Gasp-inducing … one of the boldest works in recent memory’ Karan Mahajan, Granta

‘Gutting … Cleverly satirizes a heartless worldTIME

One of the funniest books I’ve read in years and a smart take on how the internet breaks our brains’ NPR

‘Tulathimutte, undoubtedly one of the foremost fiction writers of his generation, is virtuosic, in the realm of the greats’ Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror

Unrelentingly brutal and gut-bustingly funny and spares no one’ Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House

Fast and funny, a delirious convergence of the haptic and uncanny’ Raven Leilani, author of Luster

A book of mad, madcap genius’ Garth Greenwell, author of Small Rain

‘A book that transforms over successful readings … so twistedly funny, so precise’ Vincenzo Latronico, author of Perfection

The funniest book I’ve ever read’ Bowen Yang

ISBN: 9780008759384

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 20mm

Weight: 190g

240 pages