This book is universal. I said that at the start. Because it is universal, it is ambiguous. It has something for everyone. And the final ambiguity is this.
I am obviously on Papa’s side. I obviously admire his generosity and love. Me, I believe in generosity. But I am not only on Papa’s side. I am on Nana’s side too. Because
I can see the point of niceness. It is a very wonderful thing.
But what is really wrong with selfishness? Selfishness is sometimes moral too.
Acknowledgements
The author and publishers wish to thank the following for permission to reprint copyright materiaclass="underline"
Verso Books for permission to reprint material from Investigating Sex: Surrealist Research 1928- 1932, edited by Jose Pierre, translated by Malcolm Imrie; The Random House Group Ltd for permission to reprint material from The KGB’s Literary Archive by Vitaly Shentalinsky and Hope Abandoned by Nadezhda Mandelstam, both published by The Harvill Press; and material from The Private Life of Chairman Mao: The Memoirs of Mao’s Personal Physician Dr Li Zhisui by Dr Li Zhisui and Professor Hung-Chao Tai, published by Chatto Windus.
Every effort has been made to trace copyright holders, and the publishers will be happy to correct mistakes or omissions in future editions.
About the Author
Adam thirlwell was born in 1978 and grew up in North London. He was placed on Granta’s 2003 list of Best Young British Novelists Under Forty. He is assistant editor of the magazine Arete, and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Politics is his first novel.
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