by Jonathan Coe · Editorial Anagrama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433979704
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At the heart of this story is the friendship between Rachel and Alison, which evolves throughout their lives from childhood. In the background, a real figure, David Kelly, a United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq, becomes embroiled in a data leak scandal that questions Tony Blair. His death, officially a suicide, marks the end of innocence for a generation. The lives of Rachel and Alison intertwine with eccentric characters, such as a singer seeking to revive her fame on a reality show in Australia, a professor obsessed with a film called 'The Glass Garden', a policeman who applies socio-political criteria in his investigations, and a millionaire who hires a tutor for his son. This novel is a chronicle of England's drift, a satire of the economic elites, and a detective narrative with fantastic elements.
Jonathan Coe is an English novelist and writer. His work has an underlying preoccupation with political issues, although this serious engagement is often expressed comically in the form of satire. For example, What a Carve Up! (1994) reworks the plot of an old 1960s spoof horror film of the same name. It is set within the "carve up" of the UK's resources that was carried out by Margaret Thatcher's Conservative governments of the 1980s.
