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I Am Sovereign, Paperback / softback Book

I Am Sovereign Paperback / softback

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__________________________________________'One of the funniest, most finely achieved comic novels, even by her own standard … I think it’s a masterpiece.' ALI SMITH‘I think Nicola Barker is incapable of a dull page. [Her work] is unified by its spirit of adventure.’ KEVIN BARRYHow long does it take to change the world?Could it happen in approximately twenty minutes?Charles, a forty-year-old teddy bear maker, is trying to sell his late mother's house, helped by his estate agent Avigail (who thinks Charles is an imbecile).

The prospective buyers: the fearsome Wang Shu - who has no desire to make idle chit-chat - and her downtrodden daughter, Ying Yue. During the twenty-minute viewing a huge number of things happen, although it is also entirely possible that nothing happens at all.

Which is it? Can the world really turn on its axis during a mundane discussion about cheese preservation?

Has fiction the power to do that? Should it even want to?__________________________________________'She really is a genius.’ GUARDIAN‘Life-affirming hilarity – Evelyn Waugh on ecstasy.’ NELL ZINK'A madly brilliant little book that asks who at any point is in control of what.

I loved it.' DAILY MAIL‘Nicola Barker’s wildness and capacity for the absurd often delight me.’ SARAH MOSS‘What an audacious writer Nicola Barker is … In an era when plot is king, Barker has typically, joyously, dispensed with one … Barker’s pleasure in the novella feels defiant.’ EVENING STANDARD‘I Am Sovereign is bursting with energy, compassion and humour.’ LITERARY REVIEW‘Barker is a writer in a class of her own … A work of coruscating intelligence, of deep humanity.’ OBSERVER‘A riotous burst of a novel that scrutinises the nature of fiction with the lightest of touches.’ MAIL ON SUNDAY‘A bracing, brilliantly bonkers comic novel … This is freewheeling fiction that delights in the visual.’ SUNDAY TIMES‘Barker’s writing is very, very funny, both ha ha and strange ...

Fans of Ali Smith’s “Seasonal Quartet” will enjoy a similarly arch, detached view on the banality of contemporary Britain ...

A gloriously audacious blend of, well, the deep and the trite.’ INDEPENDENT

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