by Jonathan Coe · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780241967744
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«The House of Sleep» is Jonathan Coe's novel, published by Penguin in 2014 in paperback (352 pages, in English).
Four former university friends reunite at a sleep disorder clinic. Sarah, a narcoleptic, confuses dreams and reality; Robert carries the misunderstandings of that condition; Terry, an insomniac, becomes obsessed with film; and Dr. Gregory Dudden sees sleep as a disease to eradicate. The novel is divided into six sections.
The novel, originally published in 1997, won the Prix Médicis étranger and the Writers' Guild Best Fiction Award.
For readers of literary and psychological fiction with black humour; also suitable for reading groups.
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.
