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His earlier novel \u003cem\u003eErasure\u003c\/em\u003e (2001), a savage satire of the publishing industry’s appetite for Black trauma narratives, was adapted into the Academy Award-winning film \u003cem\u003eAmerican Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e. Other essential works include the darkly comic \u003cem\u003eThe Trees\u003c\/em\u003e, the absurdist \u003cem\u003eI Am Not Sidney Poitier\u003c\/em\u003e, and the experimental \u003cem\u003eTelephone\u003c\/em\u003e. Essential reading for every serious lover of American fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"james","title":"James: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Truly extraordinary books are rare, and this is one of them' – Roddy DoyleJames is a profound and ferociously funny novel from one of our greatest living writers, Percival Everett.The Sunday Times BestsellerWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for FictionWinner of the National Book Award for FictionWinner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionShortlisted for the Booker PrizeShortlisted for the Dublin Literary AwardFinalist for the Orwell Prize for Political FictionThe Mississippi River, 1861. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a new owner in New Orleans and separated from his wife and daughter forever, he flees to nearby Jackson’s Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father who recently returned to town.So begins a dangerous and transcendent journey along the Mississippi River, towards the elusive promise of the free states and beyond. As James and Huck navigate the treacherous waters, each bend in the river holds the promise of both salvation and demise. And together, the unlikely pair embark on the most life-changing odyssey of them all . . .A 'Book of the Year' in The Observer, The Times \u0026amp; Sunday Times, The Guardian, Daily Mail, Daily Express, The Spectator, New Statesman, Independent, TLS, The Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, i newspaper, The Economist, The Irish Times, The New York Times, TIME and The New Yorker'Who should read this book? Every single person in the country' – Ann Patchett'Scorchingly funny and action-packed' – The Sunday Times, 'Books of the Year''This may be Everett's best book yet' – Bonnie Garmus'Playful and viciously comic' – The Telegraph, 'Books of the Year''My favourite novel this year' – Salman Rushdie\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dusky's Shrine","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46035401539641,"sku":"9781035031269","price":539.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0795\/3367\/0457\/files\/81wiP_4u3jL._SL1500_b986c474-16e9-41a9-81b1-9bebf090f421.jpg?v=1782812652"},{"product_id":"suder","title":"Suder","description":"\u003cp\u003e‘Everett has mastered the movement between unspeakable terror and knockout comedy’ The New York Times David Larson can never go home. His parents are dead. His sister and her hippie husband, staunchly anti-war, won’t even have the newly returned Vietnam veteran in the house. So Larson takes his chances on the road, travelling west from Georgia until he breaks down in the nowhere town of Slut’s Hole, Wyoming. There he finds lodging with Sixbury, a one-legged sexagenarian widow, and her disabled son. Their ersatz family is complete when Larson takes in Butch, a Vietnamese girl abandoned at the highway rest stop where he works, but at the edge of this tableau lingers the ineluctable spectre of violence. Blending the grotesquerie of the Southern Gothic with the Western’s codes of frontier justice, in Walk Me to the Distance Percival Everett renders a vivid and haunting landscape of the American badlands, where cruelty is the lingua franca.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dusky's Shrine","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46036096679993,"sku":"9781035077267","price":585.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0795\/3367\/0457\/files\/71teomjhXcL._SL1500.jpg?v=1782815881"},{"product_id":"walk-me-to-the-distance","title":"Walk Me to the Distance","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn introduction to the Earth's ecosystems for Early Years, with jumbo flaps, little flaps and peep-through holes to explore. Travel over the mountains, dive into the deep sea and swing through rainforests to explore Planet Earth! With jumbo fold-out pages, peep-through holes, and flaps, My First Journey Around Planet Earth is a wonderful introduction to Earth's ecosystems for young children. Simple facts, stunning illustrations by Yujin Shin, and tips for taking care of the planet make this book a perfect gift for curious kids. Little ones can have more fun learning with My First Body Book and My First Clock Book.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dusky's Shrine","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46036661731385,"sku":"9781035077229","price":585.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0795\/3367\/0457\/files\/81INFg16G_L._SL1500_9f97553c-b1c1-4ece-aefa-4f6cbd3aa5e3.jpg?v=1782816143"},{"product_id":"watershed","title":"Watershed","description":"\u003cp\u003e‘American literature’s philosopher king – and its sharpest satirist’ The New Yorker Craig Suder, third baseman for the Seattle Mariners, is in a slump. His batting average is shocking, his marriage somehow worse, and he secretly fears he’s inherited his mother’s insanity. Ordered to take a midseason rest, Suder instead takes his LP of Charlie Parker’s ‘Ornithology’ and flees. A dazzling tale of madness, confinement and the need for escape, Suder introduced Percival Everett to the world as a writer already fully capable of conjuring whole lives and worlds on the page. 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Kevin relates this event with a dispassionate air, even a bit of puzzlement. It’s not clear to him why he had the affair, but he can’t let it go. In the more distant past of the late seventies, Kevin and Richard travelled to El Salvador on the verge of war to retrieve Richard’s drug-dealing brother, who had gone missing without explanation. 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Not only is Percival Everett by Virgil Russell a powerful, compassionate meditation on old age and its humiliations, it is an ingenious culmination of Everett’s recurring preoccupations. All of his prior work, his metaphysical and philosophical enquiries, his investigations into the nature of narrative, have led to this masterful book.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dusky's Shrine","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46039605968953,"sku":"9781035036523","price":539.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0795\/3367\/0457\/files\/710k0xqmJOL._SL1500.jpg?v=1782826694"},{"product_id":"i-am-not-sidney-poitier-picador-collection","title":"I Am Not Sidney Poitier","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe sudden death of Not Sidney Poitier’s mother orphans him at age eleven. He is left with a name no one understands, an uncanny resemblance to an Oscar-winning actor, and serious amount of shares in the Turner Corporation. 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