Ned Beauman Ordre des livres (chronologique)

The dazzling new novel by the Man Booker-longlisted, Granta Best of Young British novelist, Ned Beauman - a speculative literary thriller for the age of Extinction Rebellion that is as laugh-out-loud funny as it is serious in its message. The near future. With tens of thousands of species dying out every year, our last hope is the biobanks, impregnable vaults where their remnants can be preserved forever. Until one day an audacious cyberattack obliterates every single one. In the aftermath, a troubled conservationist and a crooked mining exec must team up in search of the venomous lumpsucker, a lost fish that they both desperately need to save. Together, they pursue it through the weird landscapes of the 2030s - a nature reserve full of toxic waste; a floating city on the Baltic Sea; the dangerous hinterlands of a totalitarian state. And the further they go, the deeper they're drawn into the mystery of the attack on the biobanks. Who was behind it? And why would anyone do such a thing?

Beaumans beeindruckendster Roman, scheinbar mit leichter Hand geschrieben, doch von unglaublicher Intelligenz. The Spectator

Fifteen talented writers each explore a different body part in this funny and moving collection.

Londres, 2010. Les employés d'une puissante société minière sillonnent le sud de la ville à bord de fourgonnettes blanches pour kidnapper certaines cibles. Parallèlement à ces enlèvements, une nouvelle substance hypnotique, le «glow», est introduite dans les rave parties qu'organise Raf, jeune homme de vingt-deux ans. Au cours de l'une d'elles, Raf a le coup de foudre pour Cherish, une Américaine aux origines birmanes, mais celle-ci quitte la soirée sans laisser de trace. Quelques jours plus tard, il empêche deux hommes de la faire monter de force dans une fourgonnette blanche. Lorsque la jeune femme disparaît à nouveau, Raf se lance alors dans une enquête qui lui permet de découvrir peu à peu les liens qui unissent la société minière, les kidnappeurs, la communauté birmane de Londres et le glow.

When you haven't had sex in a long time, it feels like the worst thing that could ever happen to anyone. If you're living in Germany in the 1930s, it probably isn't. But that's no consolation to Egon Loeser, whose carnal misfortunes will push him from the experimental theatres of Berlin to the absinthe bars of Paris to the physics laboratories of Los Angeles, trying all the while to solve two mysteries: whether it was really a deal with Satan that claimed the life of his hero, the great Renaissance stage designer Adriano Lavicini; and why a handsome, clever, charming, modest guy like him can't, just once in a while, get himself laid. From the author of the acclaimed Boxer, Beetle comes a historical novel that doesn't know what year it is; a noir novel that turns all the lights on; a romance novel that arrives drunk to dinner; a science fiction novel that can't remember what 'isotope' means; a stunningly inventive, exceptionally funny, dangerously unsteady and (largely) coherent novel about sex, violence, space, time, and how the best way to deal with history is to ignore it

England, 1934: Philip Erskine stößt bei einer Expedition auf einen Käfer mit Hakenkreuzmusterung, den er durch Züchtung äußerst stark macht. Nun möchte er seine Forschungen auf den Menschen ausdehnen. England, in der Gegenwart: Kevin 'Fishy' Broom ist Sammler von Nazi-Devotionalien. Eines Tages kommt er Erskines Experimenten auf die Spur …