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Politics

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"Politics" tells the story of a father and daughter.

It also tells the story of a menage a trois. "Politics" explores crucial domestic problems of sexual etiquette.

What should sleeping arrangements be in a menage a trois?

Is it polite to read while two people have sex beside you?

Is it permissible to be jealous? If you have eczema, may you complain that undinism can be painful? "Politics" is a comedy about kindness. And, at the same time, it is also about Milan Kundera, blow jobs, Chairman Mao's personal hygiene, Vaclav Havel, half-Jewishness, Bollywood, shopping, Hitler's sexual fetish, selfishness, Osip Mandelstam, premature ejaculation, the late Queen Mother, thrush, Stalin on the phone, politeness, pink fluffy handcuffs, and Antonio Gramsci's theory of hegemony. "Politics" is not about politics.

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Vintage
0099459027 / 9780099459026
Paperback / softback
823.92
01/07/2004
United Kingdom
English
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279 p.
20 cm
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Reprint. Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2003.
One of the most talked about first novels of 2003, an extraordinary tour de force by a miraculously gifted young author.
One of the most talked about first novels of 2003, an extraordinary tour de force by a miraculously gifted young author. FA Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)