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How I Won A Nobel Prize
Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
'Taranto’s hilarious, provocative debut novel . . . switches seamlessly between psychological realism and diabolical farce.' – The Times/The Sunday Times, 'Books of the Year'
'Sometimes you read something new and immediately think how brilliant it would be for a book club.' – Vogue
In Julius Taranto’s wickedly satirical and refreshingly irreverent debut novel, a young physicist follows her mentor to an...
Details
304 pages
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Taranto’s hilarious, provocative debut novel, is at once bracingly contemporary and reassuringly familiar . . . The novel’s peculiar genius lies in how you’re never entirely sure where Taranto’s sympathies lie.The Times
A debut of great skill and admirable complexityThe Observer
A punchy and very funny campus novel which manages to satirise the culture wars without ever making too clear which side of the cancel-culture v anti-woke divide the author stands onNicola Sturgeon
A hit, a very palpable hitThe Spectator