by Will Self · OLIVIER · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782879296432
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«No smoking» is the satirical novel by Will Self, published by Éditions de l'Olivier in paperback (352 pages, in French).
Tom Brodzinski decides to give up smoking during a holiday on an island; his last cigarette butt falls on a native and he is accused of attempted murder. A tribe condemns Tom to never leave the island; the resulting journey, with shamans and initiation rituals, is a satire of political correctness, post-9/11 colonialism and the «axis of good».
Translation from English by Francis Kerline. Original title: The Butt (2008), winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2008.
Recommended for readers of satire and humour who appreciate fiction critical of contemporary society.
William Woodard Self is an English writer, journalist, political commentator and broadcaster. He has written 11 novels, five collections of shorter fiction, three novellas and nine collections of non-fiction writing. Self is currently an honorary Professor at Brunel University London, where his interests include psychogeography.
