In the tradition of satirists as caustic as Swift and as hilarious as Vonnegut, Paul Beatty’s new novel The Sellout is, as the Financial Times puts it, a ‘howl-a-page assault on the pieties of race debates in America’. Already the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, this exuberant, irreverent and exceptionally funny book is set to be one of the most important titles of 2016. In the following interview, the first of our Man Booker Longlist coverage, Beatty shared a few thoughts with Waterstones Online’s Sally Campbell
A runaway bestseller already in Germany, where it has sold over a million copies since its publication in 2012, Timur Vermes' satirical novel Look Who's Back (translated by Jamie Bulloch) sees a rather confused Adolf Hitler return to modern day Germany...
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