
Betray
About This Novel
The 2016 Booker Prize-winning work is a satirical comedy that blurs the boundaries between history and reality, fiction and non-fiction. Time, contemporary America; Place, Dickens City, Los Angeles, a dirty slum, a low-class settlement, and a dangerous city with frequent violence; Character, an ordinary boy born and raised, a college student farmer, whose real name is Me. His girlfriend calls him Bangbang, his slaves call him Master, his compatriots call him a traitor, and his country calls him a criminal. He grew up in a series of crazy mental experiments by his psychologist father, and faced a rite of passage with double losses: his father died at the hands of the police, and the city of Dickens was quietly "disappeared" from the map because it hindered the reputation of Los Angeles. With a watermelon in his left hand and a trumpet in his right hand, he conceived a strange plan to retrieve Dickens City, but at the same time he was warmly welcomed by the people of his hometown and protested with his death...
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