Slumberland
From the Man Booker prize-winning author of The Sellout
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Oneworld Publications
Published:4th May '17
£8.99
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The hip break-out novel from 2016 Man Booker Prize winner Paul Beatty
‘Shockingly original’ The Times
‘A literary freestyler with brio to burn…scabrous and very funny’ Guardian
‘A no-holds-barred comedic romp’ Junot Diaz
After creating the perfect beat, DJ Darky goes in search of Charles Stone, aka the Schwa, a little known avant-garde jazzman, to play over his sonic masterpiece. His quest brings him to a recently unified Berlin, where he stumbles through the city's dreamy streets ruminating about race, sex, love, Teutonic gods and the Berlin Wall in search of his artistic – and spiritual – other.
Ferocious, bombastic and laugh-out-loud funny, Slumberland is the second novel from Man Booker-winner Paul Beatty, a comic genius at the top of his game.
‘What Gore Vidal did for sex and gender constructs, Beatty does for race and prominent black Americans, with sacred cow-tipping on nearly every page. Waterfalls of wordplay that pool and merge like acid jazz on the page.’
* Washington Post *
‘A remarkably strange and funny meditation…revelatory and mind-blowing.’
ISBN: 9781786072214
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 19mm
Weight: unknown
256 pages