{"product_id":"perfidious-albion","title":"Perfidious Albion","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Byers, Sam\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrand:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Random House\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition:\u003c\/b\u003e Main\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 07-03-2019\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Number:\u003c\/b\u003e unknown\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e Product Description      \u003cbr\u003e\nSHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ENCORE PRIZE 2019LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2019LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2019In Edmundsbury, a small town in eastern England, fear and loathing are on the rise. Brexit has happened and the ramifications are real. Grass-roots, right-wing political party 'England Always' is fomenting hatred. The residents of a failing housing estate are being cleared from their homes. A multinational tech company is making inroads into the infrastructure. A controversial tweet; a series of ill-judged think pieces; a riot of opinions - suddenly Edmundsbury is no longer the peaceful town it had always imagined itself to be.\u003cbr\u003e\n      Review      \u003cbr\u003e\nFuriously smart . . . madly funny. ―\u003cbr\u003e\nGuardian\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nA mordant, needle-sharp satire. -- Jonathan Coe\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nPerfidious Albion is a spookily prescient take on Brexit Britain . . . This is the\u003cbr\u003e\nBlack Mirror school of storytelling: take what we know and give it a twist, so the familiar becomes frightening . . . Byers's observations are sharp and mordantly funny. -- Erica Wagner ―\u003cbr\u003e\nNew Statesman\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nLike an episode of\u003cbr\u003e\nBlack Mirror as scripted by a \"woke\" Martin Amis. . . Crackling with zeitgeisty energy. . . Byers makes twisty entertainment out of a timely wake-up call about shiny new technologies and the age-old interests they serve. ―\u003cbr\u003e\nObserver\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nBrilliantly ironic, hilarious and profound. -- Joanna Kavenna ―\u003cbr\u003e\nWhite Review 'Books of the Year'\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nDarkly plausible, witty and intelligent. ―\u003cbr\u003e\nFinancial Times\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThe best book about British politics I have read in some time. -- John Harris ―\u003cbr\u003e\nGuardian\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nA brilliant, twitchy satire on media manipulation, grievance, one-upmanship and online echo chambers [and] a powerful, ingenious literary thriller. ―\u003cbr\u003e\nSunday Times\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nWhat's notable about Byers is his Amis-esque grasp of the absurd, his mastering of contemporary street dialogue, and his ability to tell a compelling, thoroughly modern story. ―\u003cbr\u003e\nBig Issue\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Martin Amis'\u003cbr\u003e\nMoney of our time. -- David Baddiel\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThe toxic nature of the virtual has rarely been more satisfyingly skewered . . . In the days of revelations about Cambridge Analytica, Byers' novel could hardly have greater resonance. ―\u003cbr\u003e\nScotsman\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nA satirical, often-gripping portrait of a post-Brexit England in turmoil . . . Brimming with comic energy . . . this is a sharp, pacey and anxious book, made all the more unsettling by its close proximity to the now, its knack for collapsing the boundary between the absurd and the terrifying. ―\u003cbr\u003e\nIrish Times\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nScorching . . .\u003cbr\u003e\nPerfidious Albion is stuffed with diagnoses of internet culture's ills . . . But it is the novel's remarkable denouement that elevates it above state-of-the-nation satire. ―\u003cbr\u003e\nLiterary Review\u003cbr\u003e\n      Book Description      \u003cbr\u003e\nA searing, satirical portrait of a divided England in a connected age - a\u003cbr\u003e\n1984 for our times.\u003cbr\u003e\n      About the Author      \u003cbr\u003e\nSam Byers' writing has appeared in\u003cbr\u003e\nGranta, the\u003cbr\u003e\nNew York Times and the\u003cbr\u003e\nTimes Literary Supplement. His debut novel,\u003cbr\u003e\nIdiopathy, was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Prize, longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and the winner of a Betty Trask Award. His second novel,\u003cbr\u003e\nPerfidious Albion, was longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, and shortlisted for the Encore Prize. His third novel,\u003cbr\u003e\nCome Join Our Disease, is shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2021.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780571336302\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePackage Dimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.7 x 5.2 x 1.2 inches\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50252568625456,"sku":"Trans_9780571336302","price":825.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/9968\/4144\/files\/81ELLALYxUL.jpg?v=1761640150","url":"https:\/\/www.retailmaharaj.com\/products\/perfidious-albion","provider":"Retail Maharaj","version":"1.0","type":"link"}