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Red Pill Edition: First edition

Name: Red Pill Edition: First edition
Rating: 5.0 (4 reviews)
ISBN: 9780451493712

Hari Kunzru

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From the widely acclaimed author of White Tears , a bold new novel about searching for order in a world that frames madness as truth. After receiving a prestigious writing fellowship in Germany, the narrator of Red Pill arrives in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee and struggles to accomplish anything at all. Instead of working on the book he has proposed to write, he takes long walks and binge-watches "Blue Lives"—a violent cop show that becomes weirdly compelling in its bleak, Darwinian view of life—and soon begins to wonder if his writing has any value at all. Wannsee is a place full of ghosts: across the lake the narrator can see the villa where the Nazis planned the Final Solution, and in his walks he passes the grave of the Romantic writer Heinrich von Kleist, who killed himself after deciding that "no happiness was possible here on earth." When some friends drag him to a party where he meets Anton, the creator [...]of "Blue...

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Year:

2022

Publisher:

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group; Alfred A. Knopf

Language:

English

ISBN 10:

0451493710

ISBN 13:

9780451493712