I Am Sovereign

I Am Sovereign
Nicola Barker
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h198 x 129mm - 224pg
16 Jul 2020 UK
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9781786090959
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Charles, a forty-year-old teddy bear maker, is trying to sell his late mother's house, helped by his estate agent Avigail (who thinks Charles is an imbecile). The prospective buyers-the fearsome Wang Shu - who has no desire to make idle chit-chat - and her downtrodden daughter, Ying Yue. During the twenty-minute viewing a huge number of things happen, although it is also entirely possible that nothing happens at all. Which is it? Can the world really turn on its axis during a mundane discussion about cheese preservation? Has fiction the power to do that? Should it even want to?
One of the funniest, most finely achieved comic novels, even by her own standard . . . I think it' s a masterpiece. * Ali Smith * Life-affirming hilarity - Evelyn Waugh on ecstasy. * Nell Zink * Nicola Barker' s wildness and capacity for the absurd often delight me. Nicola Barker always makes me laugh, and her new one, I Am Sovereign, is one of her funniest yet, which is saying something. Of course the best comic stuff always has a dark, dark undertow, and so it is with Ms Barker. Nicola Barker loves to break the conventions of fiction . . . She has set herself the novelist' s ultimate challenge - to turn the dullest situation imaginable into something fascinating and lifelike - and she (mostly) pulls it off . . . Barker conveys the essence of these people with such skill that you feel you have met them. * The Times *
Nicola Barker was born in Ely in 1966 and spent part of her childhood in South Africa. She is the author of twelve novels - including Wide Open, Darkmans, The Yips and In the Approaches - and two short story collections. She has been twice longlisted and once shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, has won the IMPAC, the John Llewellyn Rhys and the Hawthornden Prizes, and was named one of Granta' s 20 Best Young British Writers in 2003. Her latest novel, H(A)PPY, won the 2017 Goldsmiths Prize and was longlisted for the Women' s Prize for Fiction 2018.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781786090959
Published: 16 Jul 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Windmill Books
Publisher: Cornerstone
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Spine: 14mm
Weight: 159g
Pages: 224

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