Red Pill
A novel
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
A bold new novel about searching for order in a world that frames madness as truth from the widely acclaimed author of White Tears
After receiving a prestigious writing fellowship in Germany, the narrator of Red Pill arrives in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee and struggles to accomplish anything at all. Instead of working on the book he has proposed to write, he takes long walks and binge-watches Blue Lives, a violent cop show that becomes weirdly compelling in its bleak, Darwinian view of life. He soon begins to wonder if his writing has any value at all.
Wannsee is full of ghosts: Across the lake, the narrator can see the villa where the Nazis planned the Final Solution,…
HARI KUNZRU is the author of six novels, Red Pill, White Tears, Gods Without Men, My Revolutions, Transmission, and The Impressionist. He is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books and writes the "Easy Chair" column for Harper's Magazine. He is an Honorary Fellow of Wadham College Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and has been a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a Fellow of the American Academy in Berlin. He teaches in the Creative Writing Program at New York University and is the host of the podcast Into the Zone, from Pushkin Industries. He lives in Brooklyn.
Blue Ruin
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Hard to Be a God
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Red Pill
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White Tears
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Gods Without Men
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My Revolutions
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Transmission
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