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The divers' game

Ball, Jesse, 1978-2019
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A pair of girls, Lethe and Lois, navigates the perimeters of a segregated city, armed with canisters of killing gas. Another child, Lessen, is at the centre of a bizarre cultural ritual that could be the subject of a Goya painting. Centring on the garish festivals of an allegorical nation, 'The Divers' Game' moves through worlds in which kindness is no longer meaningful. A scathing indictment of the inequalities of Western society, it makes visible the violence that has threaded its way into every aspect of our lives, and the radical empathy we need to combat it.
Main title:
The divers' game / Jesse Ball.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Granta, 2019.
Collation:
240 pages
ISBN:
9781783785872 (hbk)
Dewey class:
813.6
Language:
English
BRN:
394694
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