{"product_id":"lucy-salt-modern-fiction","title":"Lucy\t\t\t\t\t\t\t- Salt Modern Fiction","description":"Paul Pickering’s new anti-war novel Lucy is about obedience and rebellion, how one survivor in the actual and moral wasteland of immediate post-war Berlin takes over the lives of three others, psychologically and sexually, in the way Hitler took over a country. \r\n\r\n    The worldwide protests surrounding the 2024 conflict in Gaza mirror the rebel spirit at the heart of Pickering’s important, groundbreaking novel. Set partly in a German kibbutz, started by Nazis to remove Jews, there is a clash between utopian ideas and the toxic nationalism necessary to found the state of Israel. Operation Lucy, once an idealistic, anti-Nazi espionage ring, of which all the main characters are part, has become a self-devouring monster. \r\n\r\n    Lucy is darkly comic, showing how best intentions, when they pass through the looking-glass of human failings, change to the opposite. Joseph Heller’s “Catch-22” means no escape because of contradictory rules, “Lucy” is the Lucifer paradox, where the only good is bad, and only bad is good.\r\n\r\n    A thrilling, disturbing and utterly compelling read from one of the UK’s most celebrated authors.","brand":"Paul Pickering","offers":[{"title":"Salt Publishing Limited \/ 15 Jul 2024 \/ 504","offer_id":53749236564309,"sku":"9781784633240","price":3.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0501\/4188\/8668\/files\/9781784633240.webp?v=1776895383","url":"https:\/\/www.bookworld.ie\/products\/lucy-salt-modern-fiction","provider":"Book World Ireland","version":"1.0","type":"link"}