I Am SovereignAuthor :
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Published : Thursday 16 July 2020
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__________________________________________'One of the funniest, most finely achieved comic novels, even by her own standard â?▌ I think itâ?Ts a masterpiece.' ALI SMITHâ?~I think Nicola Barker is incapable of a dull page. [Her work] is unified by its spirit of adventure.â?T 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.â?T GUARDIANâ?~Life-affirming hilarity â?" Evelyn Waugh on ecstasy.â?T NELL ZINK'A madly brilliant little book that asks who at any point is in control of what. I loved it.' DAILY MAILâ?~Nicola Barkerâ?Ts wildness and capacity for the absurd often delight me.â?T SARAH MOSSâ?~What an audacious writer Nicola Barker is â?▌ In an era when plot is king, Barker has typically, joyously, dispensed with one â?▌ Barkerâ?Ts pleasure in the novella feels defiant.â?T EVENING STANDARDâ?~I Am Sovereign is bursting with energy, compassion and humour.â?T LITERARY REVIEWâ?~Barker is a writer in a class of her own â?▌ A work of coruscating intelligence, of deep humanity.â?T OBSERVERâ?~A riotous burst of a novel that scrutinises the nature of fiction with the lightest of touches.â?T MAIL ON SUNDAYâ?~A bracing, brilliantly bonkers comic novel â?▌ This is freewheeling fiction that delights in the visual.â?T SUNDAY TIMESâ?~Barkerâ?Ts writing is very, very funny, both ha ha and strange ... Fans of Ali Smithâ?Ts â?oSeasonal Quartetâ?? will enjoy a similarly arch, detached view on the banality of contemporary Britain ... A gloriously audacious blend of, well, the deep and the trite.â?T INDEPENDENT
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