Middle England

Resumen del libro

'It was tempting to think, at times like this, that some bizarre hysteria had gripped the British people' Beginning eight years ago on the outskirts of Birmingham, where car factories have been replaced by Poundland, and London, where frenzied riots give way to Olympic fever, Middle England follows a brilliantly vivid cast of characters through a time of immense change. There are newlyweds Ian and Sophie, who disagree about the future of the country and, possibly, the future of their relationship; Doug, the political commentator who writes impassioned columns about austerity from his Chelsea townhouse, and his radical teenage daughter who will stop at nothing in her quest for social justice; Benjamin Trotter, who embarks on an apparently doomed new career in middle age, and his father Colin, whose last wish is to vote in the European referendum. And within all these lives is the story of modern England: a story of nostalgia and delusion; of bewilderment and barely-suppressed rage.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p Jonathan Coe (Birmingham, 1961) estudió en las universidades de Cambridge y Warwick, y ha sido colaborador de London Review of Books y The Times Literary Supplement. En Anagrama ha publicado cinco novela, que lo han consagrado como uno de los mejores escritores de su generación, empezando por ¡Menudo reparto!, que fue galardonada con el Premio The Mail on Sunday/John Lewellyn Rhys y, en Francia, con el Prix Meilleur Livre Étranger. Su novela posterior, La casa del sueño, obtuvo el Writer's Guild Best Fiction y, en Francia, el Prix Médicis Étranger. La siguiente, El Club de los Canallas, obtuvo el Premio Arcebispo San Clemente, otorgado en Santiago de Compostel. Coe retomó a los protagonistas de esta novela veinte años después, en la Inglaterra de Blair, en El Círculo Cerrado.x{0026}lt;/p