Lucy: Pickeringâ s new novel is a sensationally readable tale of intrigue, sex, horrific killings, and sacrifice (Salt Modern Fiction)

Pickering, Paul

ISBN 10: 1784633240 / ISBN 13: 9781784633240

Editore: Salt, 2024

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• Titolo: Lucy: Pickeringâ s new novel is a sensationally readable tale of intrigue, sex, horrific killings, and sacrifice (Salt Modern Fiction)
• Editore: Salt
• Data di pubblicazione: 2024
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1784633240
• ISBN 13: 9781784633240
• Rilegatura: paperback
• Condizione: Very Good

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Paul Pickering’s new anti-war novel Lucy is about obedience and rebellion, how one survivor in the actual and moral wasteland of immediate post-war Berlin takes over the lives of three others, psychologically and sexually, in the way Hitler took over a country.

The worldwide protests surrounding the 2024 conflict in Gaza mirror the rebel spirit at the heart of Pickering’s important, groundbreaking novel. Set partly in a German kibbutz, started by Nazis to remove Jews, there is a clash between utopian ideas and the toxic nationalism necessary to found the state of Israel. Operation Lucy, once an idealistic, anti-Nazi espionage ring, of which all the main characters are part, has become a self-devouring monster.

Lucy is darkly comic, showing how best intentions, when they pass through the looking-glass of human failings, change to the opposite. Joseph Heller’s “Catch-22” means no escape because of contradictory rules, “Lucy” is the Lucifer paradox, where the only good is bad, and only bad is good.

A thrilling, disturbing and utterly compelling read from one of the UK’s most celebrated authors.

Informazioni sull?autore

Paul Pickering is the author of six novels: Wild About Harry, Perfect English, The Blue Gate of Babylon, Charlie Peace, The Leopard’s Wife and Over the Rainbow. The Blue Gate of Babylon was a New York Times notable book of the year, who dubbed it ‘superior literature’. Often compared to Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh, Pickering was chosen as one of the top ten young British novelists by bookseller WH Smith and has been long-listed for the Booker Prize three times. The novelist J.G. Ballard said Pickering’s work is ‘truly subversive’. As well as short stories and poetry, he has written several plays, film scripts and columns for The Times and Sunday Times. He lives in London with his wife and daughter.