by Will Self · Viking/Penguin · tapa dura · ISBN 9780670914432
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«The Book of Dave» is Will Self's dystopian science fiction novel, published by Viking/Penguin in hardback (495 pages, in English).
Dave Rudman, a London taxi driver, writes a text of advice and complaints for his son and buries it in Hampstead. Five hundred years later, with London largely flooded, the manuscript becomes the basis of a religion that dominates the island of Ham. A man named Symun begins to question the system. The novel combines urban satire, reflection on revealed religion, and mystery in a remote future.
The Book of Dave is Will Self's fifth novel, originally published in 2006 with the subtitle «A Revelation of the Recent Past and the Distant Future».
Recommended for readers of dystopian fiction and social satire, as well as for followers of contemporary British literature.
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.
