Three Burials (eBook)

An electrifying, darkly comic debut novel from an award-winning playwright

Anders Lustgarten (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
256 Seiten
Penguin Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-241-99923-3 (ISBN)

Infos

A THE TIMES BEST CRIME BOOK OF 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE ILP JOHN CREASEY FIRST NOVEL DAGGER 2025 Extraordinary . . . both a madcap crime caper and a savage state-of-the-nation novel . . . Anders Lustgarten writes like a man possessed: bursting with energy The TimesAn electrifying wild ride of a debut novel from award-winning playwright Anders LustgartenMeet Cherry, a bandit queen on the run, driving a pink soft-top convertible through the badlands of South-East England. She's never felt more Thelma & Louise in her life - except there are three of them in the car and one of them is dead.How did a head nurse and mother of two end up driving a handcuffed policeman and the corpse of a murdered refugee on a journey to find justice? Pursued by a racist, roid-raged, shaven-headed officer of the law - not to mention by her husband and daughter - what else can a woman with a conscience do in modern Britain?Thrilling, radical and darkly comedic, Anders Lustgarten's open-hearted storm of a book explores pressing political concerns with clear-sightedness and holds a mirror up to contemporary Britain. An irreverent, tragicomic tour de force as absurd and as urgent as hope . . . Lustgarten s novel is comedy as weapon and deep moral inquiry Guardian

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.5.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Krimi / Thriller
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 0-241-99923-5 / 0241999235
• ISBN-13: 978-0-241-99923-3 / 9780241999233