The Future Future

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 GOLDSMITHS PRIZE* It''s the eighteenth-century and Celine is in trouble ''A terrific novel'' FINANCIAL TIMES ''A radically beautiful new novel'' SHEILA HETI, author of Pure Colour Paris, 1775: Celine''s husband is mostly absent. Her parents are elsewhere. Meanwhile men are inventing stories about her - about her affairs, her sexuality, and addictions... All these stories are lies, but the public loves them - spreading them like a virus. Celine can only watch as her name becomes a symbol for everything rotten in this society ruled by men high on colonial genocide, natural destruction, and crimes against women. To survive, Celine and her friends must band together in search of justice, truth and beauty. Fantastical, funny and blindingly bright, The Future Future follows one woman on an urgently contemporary quest to clear her name and change the world.

About the author

Adam Thirlwell was born in London in 1978. The author of three previous novels, his work has been translated into thirty languages. His essays appear in the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books, and he is an advisory editor of the Paris Review. His awards include a Somerset Maugham Award and the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; in 2018 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He has twice been selected by Granta as one of their Best of Young British Novelists.

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The Future Future is a terrific novel: a testament to female friendship, an adventure story, a political commentary and a hymn to the power of language crafted into a unique and compelling shape Financial Times

Product details

• Authors: Adam Thirlwell, Thirlwell Adam
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 08.08.2024
• EAN: 9781529922844
• ISBN: 978-1-5299-2284-4
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); FICTION / Romance / Historical / General, FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Women, Historical fiction, France, FICTION / Friendship, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, United States of America, USA, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Sex and sexuality, social aspects, FICTION / Historical / Colonial America & Revolution, Later 18th century c 1750 to c 1799, Narrative theme: Diversity, equality, inclusion