Лучшие книги Адама Терлвелла

Человек сделан из любви. Все поступки человека диктуются любовью, а также - непонимание и нелепицы, альтруизм и нежность, юмор и суета. Миром правит любовь. И в первом романе современного английского прозаика Адама Терлвелла "Политика" все - тираны и злодеи, мученики и праведники, шлюхи и ханжи - хотят любить и быть любимыми. А как же секс, спросит читатель. Секс - всего лишь тоска по любви. В 2003 году Адам Терлвелл был признан "лучшим молодым писателем Великобритании". На русском языке издается впервые.

Shortlisted for the 2023 Goldsmiths Prize

A wild story of female friendship, language, and power, from France to colonial America to the moon, from 1775 to this very a historical novel like no other.

It’s the eighteenth century, and Celine is in trouble. Her husband is mostly absent. Her parents are elsewhere. And meanwhile men are inventing stories about her―about her aff airs, her sexuality, her orgies and addictions. All these stories are lies, but the public loves them and spreads them like a virus. Celine can only watch as her name becomes a symbol for everything rotten in society.

This is a world of decadence and saturation, of lavish parties and private salons, of tulle and satin and sex and violence. It’s also one ruled by men―high on colonial genocide, natural destruction, crimes against women, and, above all, language. To survive, Celine and her friends must band together in search of justice, truth, and beauty.

Fantastical, funny, and blindingly bright, Adam Thirlwell’s The Future Future follows one woman on an urgently contemporary quest to clear her name and change the world.

'I had this vision very clearly of a book in which I would record my total experience, and I knew how it should sound: with all the tones that no one ever admires, – the Gruesome, Tender, Needy, Sleazy, Boring, the Lurid and the Cute.’
In this way the hero of Adam Thirlwell’s new novel describes the book you hold between your hands: a delirious tale of backchat and low tricks, all of which begin when our hero wakes beside a woman who is bleeding, unconscious and not, unfortunately, his wife... And then, of course, events get very much worse.