Here Comes Trouble
Shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction
$25.26
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
12 February 2018
Summary
Welcome to Kyrzbekistan, winner of Most Corrupt Country 2011 and 2012. A place where anyone can be happy - as long they aren’t poor, ill, foreign, a pedestrian, or in any way interested in the truth. A country that takes fake news and false promises to new levels. Expelled from school, Ellis Dau has been forced to help his father out at the Chronicle, the last bastion of free speech in this strange world. But when the country’s power supply fails and dark voices threaten the Chronicle’s futu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781474604970 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1474604978 |
| Author: | Simon Wroe |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 12 February 2018 |
| Weight: | 290g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 133mm x 23mm |
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Depicts the literal underworld of a restaurant kitchen with wit , vigor , and gleeful , necessary profanity
I loved this rollercoaster of a ride into a corrupt, fictitious country that feels only too hideously real. It’s pretty funny too, and has a big heart. Highly recommended - Deborah Moggach, Number One bestselling author of THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL
Clear-eyed and caustic… Nineteen Eighty-Four crossed with Adrian Mole - Daily MailOften very funny and always pacy, Wroe’s novel is at once a capering Bildungsroman and a serious examination of how easily democracy can crumble if the institutions and morals that keep it robust are attacked - Sunday TimesTake Sacha Baron Cohen, add a twist of Kafka and lace it with Groucho Marx. You’re entering the surreal and blackly funny world of Simon Wroe. A brilliant novel by a very special writerFar funnier than any account of approaching far-right revolution has the right to be. Highly recommended - John HiggsAbout The Author
Simon Wroe
Simon Wroe is a freelance journalist and former chef. He writes food and culture features for the GUARDIAN and arts reviews for the ECONOMIST. His first book, CHOP CHOP, was shortlisted for the 2014 Costa First Novel Award, longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and won a Betty Trask Award. He was born in 1982 and lives in Camberwell, south London.
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