EAN: 9780241998885

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD 2024 LONGLISTED FOR THE NOTA BENE PRIZE 2024 A radical joyful novel from Goldsmiths Prize-winning author Isabel Waidner In flight from a traumatic rural childhood Corey Fah has come to earth in a one-bed council flat in the capital. Trapped with partner Drew in the limited world which late capitalism has allotted them they are modestly happy but practically futureless. Until one day Corey is offered a life-changing prize from out of the blue. Things are looking up - but as Corey soon finds it's one thing winning a prize in life's lottery and quite another being able to collect it - especially if you are a queer working class immigrant with all of History working against you. Corey Fah's pursuit of the elusive prize - and an escape from precarity - is a whirlwind epic journey through the streets of the city and the time-loops of the past written with boundless energy and invention. Social mobility in this radiant radical novel is never a simple step up the ladder but a hopeful leap into the void. Praise for Corey Fah Does Social Mobility: 'A head-spinning mind-bending roller coaster of fun horror and subversion' Kamila Shamsie 'A radical rebellious novel . . . [Waidner] brings a fresh lens to our troubled world' Observer [The] writer everyone is talking about . . . and deservedly so' Bernardine Evaristo 'Filled with wickedly sharp commentary and well-aimed digs at hypocrisy and injustice' Times Literary Supplement

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