{"product_id":"9781471194504-red-pill","title":"Red Pill","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘The book I wish I’d written? Whatever Hari Kunzru is publishing next’ \u003cb\u003eAravind Adiga\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘Astonishing, absorbing, terrifying. Immensely good.’ \u003cb\u003ePhilip Pullman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e‘Red Pill stands as a final blast of sanity against this new, deranged reality. It is a literary masterpiece for a barbaric new world rapidly running out of room for literary masterpieces.’ \u003cb\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e '[A] deeply intelligent and artfully constructed novel.' \u003cb\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhite Tears\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e comes a breathtaking, state-of-the-world novel about one man’s struggle to defend his values and create a reality free from the shadows of the past.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘From now on when you see something, you’re seeing it because I want you to see it. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen you think of something, it’ll be because I want you to think about it…’\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e And with those words, the obsession begins.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e A writer has left his family in Brooklyn for a three month residency at the Deuter Centre in Berlin, hoping for undisturbed days devoted to artistic absorption.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e When nothing goes according to plan, he finds himself holed up in his room watching Blue Lives, a violent cop show with a bleak and merciless worldview. One night at a party he meets Anton, the charismatic creator of the show, and strikes up a conversation.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e It is a conversation that leads him on a journey into the heart of moral darkness. A conversation thatthreatens to destroy everything he holds most dear, including his own mind.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRed Pill \u003c\/i\u003eis a novel about the alt-right, online culture, creativity, sanity and history. It tells the story of the 21st century through the prism of the centuries that preceded it, showing how the darkest chapters of our past haunt our present. More than anything, though, this is a novel about love and how it can endure in a world where everything else seems to have lost all meaning.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eWhite Tears\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘Exquisitely attuned’ \u003cb\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘Electrifying, subversive and wildly original’ \u003cb\u003eThe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'A book that everyone should be reading right now'\u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eTIME Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ‘Haunting, doom-drenched, genuinely and viscerally disturbing.’ \u003cb\u003eThe Independent\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56450587623798,"sku":"9781471194504","price":8.01,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_31794290.jpg?v=1760453513","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781471194504-red-pill","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}