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21. století: Nenápadný sběratel nacistických kuriozit Kevin Broom, trpící vzácnou nemocí a nejraději komunikující přes chat, najde mrtvolu soukromého detektiva a dopis od Adolfa Hitlera ze 4. října 1936 adresovaný jakémusi Philipu Erskinovi... Anglie 1934: Sledujeme podivný vztah entomologa Erskina, podivínského mladíka z vyšší společenské vrstvy, a šestnáctiletého nadějného židovského boxera Setha Hříšníka Roache, alkoholika a homosexuála se sadistickými sklony. Muži k sobě pociťují neodolatelnou přitažlivost, ale Erskine ji sublimuje do vědeckého zájmu: nabídne Hříšníkovi peníze, když mu odkáže své tělo pro posmrtný výzkum. Boxer však náhle záhadně zmizí. Erskine zároveň pokračuje v entomologickém bádání - pracuje se zvláštními brouky z Polska, kteří mají na krovkách kresbu připomínající hákový kříž. 21. století: Kevin se stává nedobrovolným společníkem záhadného nájemného vraha zvaného Velšan, které na zakázku anonymního klienta usilovně pátrá po Hříšníkově mrtvole. Román je bizarní a šokující a jistým zvráceným způsobem zábavný. Autor si pohrává s britským předválečným fašismem, současnou fascinací nacistickou mytologií, s homosexualitou a různými druhy výstřelků, postižení a úchylek. Ned Beauman se zjevně inspiroval technikami a postupy grafického románu a japonské mangy - vyprávění je místy překotné, důrazně vizuální, plné detailů a ostrých střihů.

Fifteen talented writers each explore a different body part in this funny and moving collection.

The dazzling new novel by the Man Booker-longlisted, Granta Best of Young British novelist, Ned Beauman - a speculative literary thriller for the age of Extinction Rebellion that is as laugh-out-loud funny as it is serious in its message. The near future. With tens of thousands of species dying out every year, our last hope is the biobanks, impregnable vaults where their remnants can be preserved forever. Until one day an audacious cyberattack obliterates every single one. In the aftermath, a troubled conservationist and a crooked mining exec must team up in search of the venomous lumpsucker, a lost fish that they both desperately need to save. Together, they pursue it through the weird landscapes of the 2030s - a nature reserve full of toxic waste; a floating city on the Baltic Sea; the dangerous hinterlands of a totalitarian state. And the further they go, the deeper they're drawn into the mystery of the attack on the biobanks. Who was behind it? And why would anyone do such a thing?

HISTORY HAPPENED WHILE YOU WERE HUNGOVER When you haven't had sex in a long time, it feels like the worst thing that is happening to anyone anywhere. If you're living in Germany in the 1930s, it probably isn't. But that's no consolation to Egon Loeser, whose carnal misfortunes will push him from the experimental theatres of Berlin to the absinthe bars of Paris to the physics laboratories of Los Angeles, trying all the while to solve two mysteries: whether it was really a deal with Satan that claimed the life of his hero, the great Renaissance stage designer Adriano Lavicini; and why a handsome, clever, charming, modest guy like him can't, just once in a while, get himself laid. From the author of the acclaimed Boxer, Beetle comes a historical novel that doesn't know what year it is; a noir novel that turns all the lights on; a romance novel that arrives drunk to dinner; a science fiction novel that can't remember what 'isotope' means; a stunningly inventive, exceptionally funny, dangerously unsteady and (largely) coherent novel about sex, violence, space, time, and how the best way to deal with history is to ignore it. LET'S HOPE THE PARTY WAS WORTH IT

"From one of England's most accomplished young writers: a taut, riveting, compulsively readable novel in which a young man (with a bizarre sleep disorder) uncovers the connections between foxes behaving oddly in London, Burmese people going missing, and glow, the newest recreational drug. South London, May 2010: twenty-two-year-old Raf spends his days looking after Rose, a bull terrier who guards the transmitters for a pirate radio station, and his nights at raves in dingy warehouses and launderettes, where he first hears about the mysterious glow. When a good friend disappears without a trace, Raf's efforts to find him will lead gradually and then suddenly right into the thick of a massive corporate conspiracy. And along the way, he falls in love with a stunningly beautiful young woman, only to discover that there is far more to Cherish than meets the eye. Combining the pace, drama, and explosive plot twists of a thriller with his trademark intellectual, linguistic, and comedic pyrotechnics, Glow is Ned Beauman's most compelling and virtuosic novel yet"--

Beaumans beeindruckendster Roman, scheinbar mit leichter Hand geschrieben, doch von unglaublicher Intelligenz. The Spectator

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