Binding: Paperback
Description: Long - listed for the 2018 Man Booker Prize Short - listed for the 2018 Gordon Burn Prize Short - listed for the 2018 Goldsmiths Prize Inspired by the real - life murder of a British army soldier by religious fanatics Guy Gunaratne's In Our Mad and Furious City is a snapshot of the diverse frenzied edges of modern - day London. A crackling debut from a vital new voice it pulses with the frantic energy of the city's homegrown grime music and is animated by the youthful rage of a dispossessed overlooked and often misrepresented generation. While Selvon Ardan and Yusuf organize their lives around soccer girls and grime Caroline and Nelson struggle to overcome pasts that haunt them. Each voice is uniquely insightful impassioned and unforgettable and when stitched together they trace a brutal and vibrant tapestry of today's London. In a forty - eight - hour surge of extremism and violence their lives are inexorably drawn together in the lead - up to an explosive tragic climax. In Our Mad and Furious City documents the stark disparities and bubbling fury coursing beneath the prosperous surface of a city uniquely on the brink. Written in the distinctive vernaculars of contemporary London the novel challenges the ways in which we coexist now and more important the ways in which we often fail to do so.
Title: In Our Mad And Furious City A Novel
Author(s): Gunaratne Guy
Publisher: Farrar Straus And Giroux
Barcode: 9780374175771
Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 12/11/2018
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction