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The 2005 Award

Politics by Adam Thirlwell

Politics by Adam Thirlwell

 

 

Nominated by:

  • Leipzig Stadtbibliothek, Germany

 


Publi
sher of Nominated Edition:
Jonathan Cape ISBN 0224071041

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ABOUT THE BOOK
Politics tells the story of a father and daughter. It also tells the story of a ménage à trois.

Politics explores crucial domestic problems of sexual etiquette. What should the sleeping arrangements be in a ménage à trois? Is it polite to read while two people have sex beside you? Is it permissible to be jealous? If you have eczema, should you complain that undinism can be painful?
Politics is a comedy about kindness. And at the same time, it is also about Milan Kundera, blow jobs, Chairman Mao's personal hygiene, Václav Havel, half-Jewishness, Bollywood, shopping, Hitler's sexual fetish, selfishness, Osip Mandelstam, premature ejaculation, the late Queen Mother, thrush, Stalin on the phone, politeness, Antonio Gramsci's theory of hegemony, and pink fluffy handcuffs.
Politics is not about politics.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Adam Thirlwell was born in 1978 and grew up in North London. In January 2003 he was chosen by Granta as one of the Best of Young British Novelists. Politics, his first novel, won a 2003 Betty Trask Award. He is the deputy editor of Areté, and lives in Oxford, England.


 

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