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- Published: 27 August 2020
- ISBN: 9781473584327
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: Audio Download
The Porcupine
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- Published: 27 August 2020
- ISBN: 9781473584327
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: Audio Download
A minor masterpiece of political satire: compelling, funny and frightening
Robert Harris
The Porcupine is a new indisputable proof of Mr Barnes's creative power, yet what really astonished me, the Prosecutor, was the amazing precision of the intellectual's view of a socialist dictator, which so accorded with Zhivkov's true character
Prosecutor Zhekov, official prosecutor of the deposed Bulgarian leader Todor Zhivkov
Critics have overlooked his tenderness, underestimated his intelligence, and denied his wisdom... The Porcupine is a superbly accomplished novella
Nick Hornby
The neatness of the novel's structure is complemented by the rampageous energy of the characters for which it is the cage
Daily Telegraph