Berlusconi Bonus
«- a profound, intelligent novel that asks serious, adult questions about what it means to be alive.A" - Martin Tierney, The Herald The Berlusconi Bonus is an adroit and satisfying satire on the iniquities of present-day life from insane consumerism to political mendacity, globalisation to the War on Terror. It is both very funny and an extremely astute analysis of the evil results of a philosophy which sings the victory song of extreme free-market economics.A" - Peter Wittaker, The New Internationalist I say buy it. It makes you think.A" - Dominic Hilton, The New Humanist Cameron grapples with Fukuyama's theories on the end of the totalitarian ideologies and a plausible future scenario in which 'all Muslims were either massacred or expelled from the Federation' and there are 'no tradesmen now, and there are no artists, musicians or writers.'A" - La Stampa»
Allan Cameron's intriguing novel is set in a near future where the predictions of the US theorist Francis Fukuyama have been taken to their logical conclusions. Fukuyama declared that, with the collapse of the USSR and the hegemony of neoliberal capitalism, history has come to an end. Les mer
Adolphus embarks on a dizzying journey among the clandestine opposition, in which he finds love, betrayal and violence; discovering terrifying truths about himself and his society.A" - New Internationalist
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Vagabond Voices
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780956056092
- Utgivelsesår
- 2010
- Format
- 21 x 14 cm
Anmeldelser
«- a profound, intelligent novel that asks serious, adult questions about what it means to be alive.A" - Martin Tierney, The Herald The Berlusconi Bonus is an adroit and satisfying satire on the iniquities of present-day life from insane consumerism to political mendacity, globalisation to the War on Terror. It is both very funny and an extremely astute analysis of the evil results of a philosophy which sings the victory song of extreme free-market economics.A" - Peter Wittaker, The New Internationalist I say buy it. It makes you think.A" - Dominic Hilton, The New Humanist Cameron grapples with Fukuyama's theories on the end of the totalitarian ideologies and a plausible future scenario in which 'all Muslims were either massacred or expelled from the Federation' and there are 'no tradesmen now, and there are no artists, musicians or writers.'A" - La Stampa»