The Divers' Game

A pair of girls, Lethe and Lois, navigates the perimeters of a segregated city, armed with canisters of killing gas. Another child, Lessen, is at the centre of a bizarre cultural ritual that could be the subject of a Goya painting. Centring on the garish festivals of an allegorical nation,The Divers' Gamemoves through worlds in which kindness is no longer meaningful. A scathing indictment of the inequalities of Western society, it makes visible the violence that has threaded its way into every aspect of our lives, and the radical empathy we need to combat it.

About the author

Jesse Ball's many works of absurdity and radicalism have been published in more than a dozen languages. He was selected as one of Granta magazine's Best of Young American Novelists in 2017. His novel Census won the Gordon Burn Prize in 2018. He lives in Chicago.

Product details

• Authors: Jesse Ball
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.08.2020
• EAN: 9781783785896
• ISBN: 978-1-78378-589-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy; Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy > Science fiction; Science-Fiction, FICTION / Literary, Dystopische und utopische Literatur, FICTION / Science Fiction / General, FICTION / Dystopian, Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Science Fiction, Amerikanische Belletristik / Science Fiction