{"product_id":"turbulence-9781529111972","title":"Turbulence","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e**WINNER OF THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZE 2019**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDiscover the brilliant new short story collection from the Man Booker-shortlisted author of \u003ci\u003eAll That Man Is\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwelve people on the move around planet Earth, twelve individual lives, each in turmoil, and each in some way touching the next. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this nuanced and deeply moving sequence, David Szalay’s diverse protagonists circumnavigate the world in twelve plane journeys, from London to Madrid, from Dakar to Sao Paulo, to Toronto, to Delhi, to Doha, en route to see lovers and parents, children and siblings, or nobody at all. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlong the way, Szalay deftly depicts the ripple effect that, knowingly or otherwise, a person’s actions have on those around them, and invites us to consider our own place in the vast and delicately balanced network of human relationships that is the world we live in today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMore tales of mortality from\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003ea master of the genre\u003c\/b\u003e... \u003cb\u003e[\u003ci\u003eTurbulence\u003c\/i\u003e]\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eis a chilling achievement\u003c\/b\u003e. -- David Sexton * Evening Standard *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eportrait of our species at a time of crisis\u003c\/b\u003e... \u003cb\u003eSzalay is our greatest chronicler \u003c\/b\u003eof these rootless, tradeworn places, and the desperate, itinerant lives of those who inhabit them. -- Alex Preston * Observer *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIngenious\u003c\/b\u003e… \u003cb\u003e[David Szalay] knows about people\u003c\/b\u003e… Stark and spare, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTurbulence\u003c\/i\u003e is an impressive novel\u003c\/b\u003e. -- Brian Martin * Spectator *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading David Szalay is like receiving a series of electric shocks\u003c\/b\u003e: his preference for short, sharp sketches, rather than a single, linear plot, means that his books deny the reader the comforts of conventional, more languid storytelling… Szalay’s stories may be over in just a matter of minutes, but they are \u003cb\u003eviolently, appallingly immersive.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Claire Allfree * Daily Mail *\u003cbr\u003eAs Szalay consistently uproots his reader, proliferating characters and locations, [\u003ci\u003eTurbulence\u003c\/i\u003e] could be seen as an experiment in the limits of sympathy… \u003cb\u003ea practical test for the way we feel (or fail to feel) for others\u003c\/b\u003e. Such calculated neutrality is the perfect foil to some \u003cb\u003eheart-stoppingly beautiful prose\u003c\/b\u003e… Things in this \u003cb\u003eelegant, frightening, politically charged\u003c\/b\u003e book, fall apart. They also lift off. -- Sophie Ratcliffe * Daily Telegraph *","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48740131209559,"sku":"9781529111972","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781529111972.jpg?v=1720053955","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/turbulence-9781529111972","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}