NUMBER 11

Jonathan Coe's eleventh novel is a story of and for our times. It moves from the distant rumble of the Iraq War to the austerity years of the Britain we know now. Surviving characters from his classic 90's satire, What a Carve Up!, stalk five vividly imagined worlds, revealing a society increasingly ill at ease with itself. A minor celebrity tries fruitlessly to revive her career in the Australian jungle. An eccentric detective investigates the murder of three stand-up comedians. A bewildered Oxford graduate finds herself catapulted into the world of private tutoring for the super rich. In these and other linked stories, Jonathan holds up a pitiless mirror to the world we inhabit. Number 11 is What a Carve Up! for the twenty first century.

NUMMER 11
Deutsch von Karin Fleischanderl
[HC Folio 09/17]