by Jonathan Coe · Editorial Anagrama · tapa dura · ISBN 9788433906953
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«¡Menudo reparto!» is Jonathan Coe's political satire novel, published in 1996 by Editorial Anagrama in hardback (480 pages, in Spanish).
In 1990, with England on the brink of war against Saddam Hussein, Michael Owen, a penniless writer, is commissioned by the elderly Tabitha Winshaw to write her family's biography and clarify the death of her brother Godfrey. His investigation confronts him with a series of grotesque figures, and connects with a film that obsessed him.
First installment of the series The Winshaw Legacy; its original title is What a Carve Up! Translation by Javier Lacruz. John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and Best Foreign Book Prize.
Will appeal to readers of political satire and contemporary British fiction, with humor and social critique.
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.
