The Proof of My Innocence
Jonathan Coe
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Add to basket: The Proof of My Innocence es una mordaz sátira política envuelta en un misterio de asesinato, escrita por Jonathan Coe, uno de los novelistas británicos más queridos. La historia sigue a Phyl, una joven graduada en literatura que, tras regresar a casa de sus padres, se ve envuelta en una trama que conecta un siniestro laboratorio de ideas fundado en Cambridge en los años 80 con la política extrema del gobierno británico actual. La narrativa salta entre décadas y géneros, desde la novela de aprendizaje hasta el 'cosy crime', explorando cómo las claves para entender el presente suelen encontrarse en los rincones más oscuros del pasado. Con el humor característico de Coe, la obra ofrece una crítica afilada sobre el estado de la nación británica, entrelazando enigmas literarios de hace cuarenta años con las turbulencias políticas contemporáneas. EAN: 9780241678428 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Literatura y Ficción Título: The Proof of My Innocence Autor: Jonathan Coe Editorial: Penguin Books Ltd Idioma: en Páginas: 352 Formato: tapa blanda.
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'The premier satirist of great British crapness is on killer form in this gag-a-minute mystery' Observer
'A new Jonathan Coe is always a treat... Coe is a master at exploring the pains of modern life' The Times
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Post-university life doesn’t suit Phyl. Time passes slowly, living with her parents and working a zero-hours contract at Heathrow Airport, while her budding plans of becoming a writer are going nowhere.
That is, until family friend Chris comes to stay. He’s been investigating a radical think tank, founded at Cambridge University in the 1980s, that’s been scheming to push the British government in an ever more extreme direction. When he follows this story to a conference in a rambling old hotel deep in the Cotswolds, events take a bizarre and sinister turn. Soon he is caught up in a world of cryptic clues, secret passages and, eventually, murder.
In the end, despite the efforts of a suitably eccentric detective, it falls to Phyl herself – ably assisted by Chris’s outspoken adopted daughter Rashida - to look for answers to the fatal mystery. But will they lie in contemporary politics, or in a literary enigma that is almost forty years old?
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'Full of energy... a madcap caper, a sideways memoir, a tricky jeu d'esprit that is also a quiet defence of fiction in a post-truth age, and enormous fun to read' Guardian
'Deeply pleasurable, and a lot of fun. You emerge from it glowing' iPaper
'Fantastic, wickedly funny and gripping. Coe has written a beautifully crafted mystery that dovetails as a sharp, smart, state of the nation' Simon McCleave
'I was delighted... it's clever and political - while also being very funny' John Self
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