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Lucy
By (author) Paul Pickering
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Paul Pickering’s new anti-war novel Lucy is about obedience and rebellion, how one survivor in the actual and moral wasteland of immediate post-war Berlin takes over the lives of three others, psychologically and sexually, in the way Hitler took over a country. The worldwide protests surrounding the 2024 conflict in Gaza mirror the rebel spirit at the heart of Pickering’s important, groundbreaking novel. Set partly in a German kibbutz, started by Nazis to remove Jews, there is a clash between utopian ideas and the toxic nationalism necessary to found the state of Israel. Operation Lucy, once an idealistic, anti-Nazi espionage ring, of which all the main characters are part, has become a self-devouring monster. Lucy is darkly comic, showing how best intentions, when they pass through the looking-glass of human failings, change to the opposite. Joseph Heller’s “Catch-22†means no escape because of contradictory rules, “Lucy†is the Lucifer paradox, where the only good is bad, and only bad is good. A thrilling, disturbing and utterly compelling read from one of the UK’s most celebrated authors.
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Publisher | Salt Publishing
Published date | 15 Jul 2024
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 336
Dimensions | 198 x 129 x 24mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-1-7846-3324-0
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BISAC | fiction / literary
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