Am I Cold (Paperback)
Martin Kongstad (author), Martin Aitken (translator)
£12.99
Paperback
352 Pages /
Published: 19/11/2015
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Copenhagen, 2008. Excess is in, austerity is out. The international crash is about to send everything tumbling down, but everyone's too wasted to notice. And Mikkel Vallin's own bubble has already burst. Divorced, left by his girlfriend for a successful author, sacked from his job as a food critic, the wrong side of forty, Mikkel has had enough: he's declared war on the monogamous relationship. Jealousy, deceit, hatred ... it's enough to make you wonder if we'd all be better off just sleeping with who we wanted for a change.
Fortunately, his new girlfriend - a successful, young, beautiful Hungarian artist - agrees. Unfortunately, Mikkel might be falling in love with her. Among the orgies, the drug-fuelled sprees, the whirlwind of parties, surely there can't be space for ... love?
Told in Mikkel's brilliantly spiky, terminally cynical deadpan, Martin Kongstad's excoriating debut novel turns the last, glorious, debauched days of pre-crash decadence into a wild satire of modern life.
Translated by Martin Aitken.
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
ISBN: 9781781253335
Number of pages: 352
Weight: 336 g
Dimensions: 216 x 135 x 22 mm
Edition: Main
MEDIA REVIEWS
This autumn's funniest and most provocative book about relationships * Elle *
A spiky, witty satire that's highly engaging -- Lucy Scholes * Independent *
Absorbing, arty, and moderately nasty -- William Leith * Evening Standard *
An 18-carat read about turbocharged pre-crash decadence -- Claire Lowdon * Sunday Times *
A spiky, witty satire that's highly engaging -- Lucy Scholes * Independent *
Absorbing, arty, and moderately nasty -- William Leith * Evening Standard *
An 18-carat read about turbocharged pre-crash decadence -- Claire Lowdon * Sunday Times *
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