by Martin Amis · Editorial Anagrama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433977731
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«Lionel Asbo: El estado de Inglaterra» is the satirical novel by Martin Amis, published by Editorial Anagrama in paperback, with 360 pages in Spanish.
The story follows Desmond Pepperdine, a sensitive teenager and voracious reader who grows up in a sordid London suburb with his grandmother and his uncle Lionel Asbo, a small-time criminal who has just won the lottery. The sudden money turns Lionel into tabloid fodder and triggers a ferocious satire of contemporary England, its classes, its press and its contradictions.
The novel was nominated for the Europese Literatuurprijs in 2013 and is part of Anagrama's Compactos collection, translated by Jesús Zulaika.
A read for those seeking contemporary fiction with transgressive British humour and an incisive look at English social reality.
Sir Martin Louis Amis was an English novelist, essayist, memoirist, screenwriter and critic. He is best known for his novels Money (1984) and London Fields (1989). He received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his memoir Experience and was twice listed for the Booker Prize. Amis was a professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing from 2007 until 2011. In 2008, The Times named him one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.
