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978-1785152269

I Am Sovereign

I Am Sovereign

by Nicola Barker

Publisher Heinemann

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About the book

'An anarchic and lovingly perverse writer.' Ali Smith

I think Nicola Barker is incapable of a dull page. [Her work] is unified by its spirit of adventure. Kevin Barry

'She really is a genius. Guardian

Charles, a forty-year-old boutique teddy bear maker and wearer of ironic t-shirts, is trying and failing to sell his small, characterless house in Llandudno. Avigail, yes Avigail, his estate agent, is trying mostly in vain to rein in Charless most unhelpful eccentricities, including his repeated recounting to potential buyers of an unsuccessful burglary that took place twelve years ago.

When Wang Shu and her daughter view the house, a series of seemingly innocuous events distorts the reality of the characters lives, causing Avigail to revaluate her beliefs and all of the characters to question their very existence.

As religious epiphanies bump up against declarations of love, examinations of subjectivity hurtle into meditations on the history of culture, our entire understanding of the book and of the boundaries between fiction and real life is radically upended.

A tour de force in miniature form that twists the novel into new shapes as the characters sabotage the fictional world they inhabit, I Am Sovereign sees Nicola Barker at her most joyful, provocative and riotous.

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About the Author

Nicola Barker

Nicola Barker’s work includes Love Your Enemies (David Higham Prize for Fiction, joint winner of the Macmillan Silver Pen Award for Fiction), Reversed Forecast, Small Holdings, Heading Inland (1997 John Llewellyn Rhys/Mail on Sunday Prize), Five Miles From Outer Hope, Wide Open (winner of the 2000 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award), Behindlings, Clear (long-listed for the 2004 Man Booker prize) and Darkmans, shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize, the 2008 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Award and winner of the Hawthornden Prize for 2008. She was named as one of the 20 Best Young British Novelists by Granta in 2005. The Yips was longlisted for The Man Booker Prize 2012. H(A)PPY won the Goldsmiths prize 2017 and was longlisted for the Women's Fiction Prize 2018 and shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize. It was also a Guardian, Telegraph and An Independent Book of the Year. Her most recent novel, I Am Sovereign, was described by Ali Smith as 'a masterpiece'. Her work has been translated into over a dozen languages.

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