God Is Dead - Rilegato

Ron Currie

3,75

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ISBN 10: 0330452878 ISBN 13: 9780330452878

Casa editrice: Picador, 2007

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God - or Sora, as she's called - has come to earth to experience its conflicts first hand, but adopting a human form also means assuming human frailty and mortality, and when Sora's death - and her true identity - is discovered, the world is immediately and irrevocably changed. Waves of panic, civil unrest and mass suicide sweep the globe; young men take the future into their own hands, armies go to war over fate versus free will, and parents - in the absence of an alternative, and with nothing else to do on a Sunday - turn their children into objects of worship. On the surface, this is a world that is utterly transformed. Yet as protective parents clash with wilful teenagers, seemingly mis-matched couples conduct clandestine affairs, and small-town gossips thrive on rumour and innuendo, certain things remain unchanged. In fact, perhaps the biggest surprise for those who survive the initial shock is that - even without God - life goes on. In God is Dead, Ron Currie combines the satirical prescience of Jonathan Swift, the dark appeal of Chuck Palaniuk and the provocative enquiry of Kurt Vonnegut. At the same time, God is Dead is truly - and terrifyingly - original; blasphemous and heretical, it's an exceptional debut and a remarkable read.

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Recensione:

Currie s unique content is complemented by a tone that is satirical and wickedly funny at times...The stories resonate and leave a range of questions concerning human nature and the world, resulting in a provocative book that is hard to forget. --The Times

As smart and addictive as any debut novel you're likely to pick up this year....funny...comparisons to a young Vonnegut might well be founded. --The List

Funny and dark...Is there a place for love in a Godless world? This is just one of the big questions posed by this entertaining and provocative debut. --Sainsbury's magazine

Descrizione del libro:

When God descends to earth as a Sudanese woman, and subsequently dies in the Darfur desert, the result is a world both fundamentally altered and yet eerily familiar

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