Imprint: Black Swan
Published: 27/04/2015
ISBN: 9781784160951
Length: 304 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 19mm x 127mm
Weight: 210g
RRP: £9.99
He has nowhere to go...so he goes there.
An alienated young man can see no meaning in life. He doesn't even see the point of getting out of bed in the morning. To escape from his family he decides to set off on a hitchhiking adventure around Europe, and is picked up by a friendly lorry driver with an unusual interest in philosophy.
The journey takes him through a violent and Kafkaesque nightmare to a destination that changes his life.
Imprint: Black Swan
Published: 27/04/2015
ISBN: 9781784160951
Length: 304 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 19mm x 127mm
Weight: 210g
RRP: £9.99
Thrilling in every respect, but also hypnotic, fast-moving and intellectually challenging . . . Quite staggeringly good.
It entertains us while it reflects with great profundity on the human condition . . . one of the best novelists around.
Nicolson describes it as 'a thriller about the meaning of life' and that's pretty accurate . . . A genuinely thought-provoking read.
Very good . . . Kafka lurks in the background through all this but Nicholson successfully contrives to supplant that author's fatalism with a hard-won optimism concerning how to remain human amid inhumanity.
A pacy, tense and often funny read.