The Repeat Room - A Novel
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| Verlag | Penguin Random House |
| Auflage | 2024 |
| Seiten | 256 |
| Format | 13,6 x 21,0 x 2,2 cm |
| Gewicht | 375 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| EAN | 9781646221400 |
| Bestell-Nr | 64622140UA |
Franz Kafka meets Yorgos Lanthimos in this provocative new novel from one of America s most brilliant and distinctive writers
In a speculative future, Abel, a menial worker, is called to serve in a secretive and fabled jury system. At the heart of this system is the repeat room, where a single juror, selected from hundreds of candidates, is able to inhabit the defendant s lived experience, to see as if through their eyes.
The case to which Abel is assigned is revealed in the novel s shocking second act. We receive a record of a boy's broken and constrained life, a tale that reveals an illicit and passionate psycho-sexual relationship, its end as tragic as the circumstances of its conception.
Artful in its suspense, and sharp in its evocation of a byzantine and cruel bureaucracy, The Repeat Room is an exciting and pointed critique of the nature of knowledge and judgment, and a vivid framing of Ball's absurd and nihilistic philosophy of love.
