Author:Rupert Morgan
The world is full of fanatics, and the dry, ravaged dictatorship of Errat has more than its fair share, but Saman Massoudi is not one of them. Although he is very enthusiastic about his bees.
The world is full of violence, and more people get killed in Errat than most places, but Saman Massoudi never killed anyone. Not even the people who murdered his wife and children.
Saman Massoudi just wants to be left in peace to make his honey.
So it really isn't fair that Saman Massoudi, of all people, should be wrongly-identified by the Intelligence Services of the most powerful nation on the planet as a terrorist mastermind plotting to unleash a plague of killer bees on their nation.
Saman Massoudi has never believed in war. But he'd better believe in this one.
Because it's on him.
Concerned, impassioned and very funny, 'Rule No.1' is the coruscating new novel for our times by a daring and prodigiously talented young novelist
'Brilliant...he is like Ben Elton at his wittiest'
—— The ExpressSelby deploys street slang, common speech, argot and scatology to create a high poetic art ... it seems to derive from the greatest American poetry--Whitman, Pound, Williams, and Olson
—— The NationSelby brings a scorching light to a limited area of human existence, which most people know of but do not know
—— NewsweekA mixture of existential thriller and romantic discourse...rich in artistic allusions
—— Mail on SundayErudite, funny and disarming, this is a love story for grown-ups, with an ending that, by simultaneously defying and fulfilling the reader's romantic expectations, manages to be entirely satisfying.
—— Christina Koning, The TimesTruong's pen is a scalpel, laying perfect words down along that nerve until even the happiest reader understands what it means to forever stand apart from your family and the larger society you inhabit...The novel's end is neither bitter nor sweet, but the perfect combination of both
—— Los Angeles TimesIf you liked The Shaking Woman by Siri Hustvedt, you'll love Bitter in the Mouth by Monique Truong... a tale of friendship, loyalty, love, family, and above all, the mysteries that make us who we are
—— TatlerWith a heroine who literally eats words, Truong is amply aware of the power of them... she wields her narrative like a quarterstaff, knocking readers' expectations right out from under them
—— Washington PostMonique Truong creates a world so subtle, mysterious, moving and sensory that it heightens our consciousness of those qualities in our own. Bitter in the Mouth is the rare novel that makes one life story unique and universal at the same time
—— Gloria SteinemBe prepared for a full range of tastes of life in Bitter in the Mouth: friendship, loyalty, love, family, and above all, the mysteries at every corner of one's history that make us who we are. Monique Truong is a great observer and a beautiful writer
—— Yiyun LiA terrific writer... She's changed my perception on life
—— Anna ChancellorA classic of contemporary Americana... variously funny and horrifying and finally, quietly, terribly moving
—— Los Angeles TimesA book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read
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