Slaves to Fortune - Couverture souple

Lanoye, Tom

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1642860468 ISBN 13 : 9781642860467

Editeur : World Editions, 2019

Synopsis

Two Belgian exiles, both called Tony Hanssen, are on the run from their former lives on different continents. In Buenos Aires one of the Tony Hanssens, a former cruise director, is playing a dangerous game as a toy boy to the elderly wife of a wealthy Chinese businessman. In South Africa a totally different Tony Hanssen, a computer specialist running from a crashed merchant bank, breaks into a game reserve with a precision rifle and war ammunition. Amid the chaos of global capitalism, lawlessness, and disintegrating lives, a chance meeting between the two Hanssens gives each the chance to redeem himself by betraying the other. 

'I wanted to write a novel which struck a balance between Albert Camus and Quentin Tarantino. Between classic European existentialism and a typical American-thriller exploitation ― between merciless analysis and merciless fun.' ― Tom Lanoye

'An intoxicating novel: relevant, encompassing the entire globe, satirical, and fast-paced ― Slaves to Fortune demonstrates with dizzying speed that we Westerners are depressingly interchangeable.' ― De Volkskrant 

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: World Editions
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1642860468
• ISBN 13: 9781642860467
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 324
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible