Grime - Sibylle Berg

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Résumé :

This is a novel so caustic it should be printed with hydrochloric acid. Berg, a Swiss writer and social activist, sprays her fury across the whole landscape of technological and economic manias that are rendering the 21st century intolerable. And Tim Mohr has done a remarkable job of translating Berg's hilarious, hectoring, hyperbolic prose, which isn't so much propulsive as relentless...No other book has so thoroughly rattled me about where we're headed. -Ron Charles, the Washington Post

The first English translation of iconic Swiss-German novelist Sibylle Berg-a ruthless indictment of contemporary society and a strikingly creative manifesto for rebellion.

Rochdale is a town in post-industrial Britain, but it could be anywhere on the digitalized, environmentally-decimated planet: a place devoid of hope, where poverty, violence, and squalor are the near-future consequences of decisions being made at this very moment. Grime is the dazzling multi-voice story of four teenagers haphazardly brought together by individual tragedy and a collective love of grime, the music genre that replaced punk as the sound of the angry and the dispossessed: martial-arts-obsessed Don(atella)...

Biographie:
Karen, a tech-savvy girl with albinism...

Sommaire:
Sibylle Berg is a Swiss-German author and playwright, and one of the most celebrated contemporary writers in the German-speaking world. Born in Weimar, Germany, they have written more than 25 plays, over a dozen novels, and numerous anthologies and radio plays. Their work has been translated into 34 languages. Berg is part of the Straight Edge movement and identifies as non-binary. The German-language edition of Grime won the Swiss Book Prize. In 2020, Berg received Switzerland's highest literary award, the Grand Prix Literature, for their work. They live in Zurich....