Tony Tulathimutte – författare

‘The funniest book I’ve read for a long time’ DAVID NICHOLLS ‘Utterly ruthless’ NEW YORK TIMES ‘Addictive … I loved it!’ RUFI THORPE‘Twistedly funny’ VINCENZO LATRONICO‘Razor-sharp … impossible to put down’ JACK EDWARDS LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION Written with the accomplished authority of a modern classic and the manic intensity of a loser's manifesto, Rejection radically redefines what it means to be rejected by lovers, friends, society and oneself.We see a tryhard male feminist's passionate allyship turn to a furious nihilism as he realises that his feminism isn’t getting him laid and a young woman’s unrequited crush spirals into borderline obsession. As these characters pop up in each other’s dating apps and social media feeds, or meet in dimly lit bars and bedrooms, they reveal the ways that our delusions can warp our desire for connection. A Book of the Year in Guardian, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New Yorker, TIME, Vanity Fair, GQ, Service95 and more. A Jack Edwards Inklings Book Club Pick ‘Extremely dark … laugh-out-loud funny’ GUARDIAN ‘Divinely appalling’ SCOTSMAN ‘Perversely funny’ FINANCIAL TIMES ‘The funniest, darkest thing’ ST. VINCENT ‘Blistering … takes a magnifying glass to the mind of the internet age’ VOGUE ‘An excruciating examination of modern losers in psychic distress’ THE TIMES ‘Tulathimutte is a pervert and a madman and a stone-cold genius’ CARMEN MARIA MACHADO, author of In the Dream House‘You will be crawling out of your skin’ JIA TOLENTINO, author of Trick Mirror‘Mad, madcap genius’ GARTH GREENWELL, author of Small Rain

‘The funniest book I’ve read for a long time’ DAVID NICHOLLS ‘Utterly ruthless’ NEW YORK TIMES ‘Addictive … I loved it!’ RUFI THORPE‘Twistedly funny’ VINCENZO LATRONICO‘Razor-sharp … impossible to put down’ JACK EDWARDS LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION Written with the accomplished authority of a modern classic and the manic intensity of a loser's manifesto, Rejection radically redefines what it means to be rejected by lovers, friends, society and oneself.We see a tryhard male feminist's passionate allyship turn to a furious nihilism as he realises that his feminism isn’t getting him laid and a young woman’s unrequited crush spirals into borderline obsession. As these characters pop up in each other’s dating apps and social media feeds, or meet in dimly lit bars and bedrooms, they reveal the ways that our delusions can warp our desire for connection. A Book of the Year in Guardian, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New Yorker, TIME, Vanity Fair, GQ, Service95 and more. A Jack Edwards Inklings Book Club Pick ‘Extremely dark … laugh-out-loud funny’ GUARDIAN ‘Divinely appalling’ SCOTSMAN ‘Perversely funny’ FINANCIAL TIMES ‘The funniest, darkest thing’ ST. VINCENT ‘Blistering … takes a magnifying glass to the mind of the internet age’ VOGUE ‘An excruciating examination of modern losers in psychic distress’ THE TIMES ‘Tulathimutte is a pervert and a madman and a stone-cold genius’ CARMEN MARIA MACHADO, author of In the Dream House‘You will be crawling out of your skin’ JIA TOLENTINO, author of Trick Mirror‘Mad, madcap genius’ GARTH GREENWELL, author of Small Rain

From a brilliant new literary talent comes a sweeping comic portrait of privilege, ambition and friendship - dubbed ‘the first great millennial novel’ by New York Magazine.'A brilliant novel – whip smart, hilarious and entirely engrossing' Emma Cline, author of The Girls'Tulathimutte is a big talent' Jonathan Franzen, author of Purity'An eloquent social novel bristling with logic’ Nell Zink, Financial Times, Best Summer Books of 2016'Tulathimutte is a pervert and a madman and a stone-cold genius’ Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House'Tulathimutte is utterly inimitable.' Raven Leilani, author of Luster'Tulathimutte, undoubtedly one of the foremost fiction writers of his generation, is virtuosic, in the realm of the greats.’ Jia Tolentino, author of Trick MirrorCapturing the anxious, self-aware mood of young college grads in the noughties, Private Citizens embraces the contradictions of our new century. Call it a gleefully rude comedy of manners, a Middlemarch for Millennials. The novel's four whip-smart narrators – idealistic Cory, Internet-lurking Will, awkward Henrik, and vicious Linda – are torn between fixing the world and cannibalizing it. In boisterous prose that ricochets between humour and pain, the four estranged friends stagger through the Bay Area's maze of tech start-ups, protestors, gentrifiers, karaoke bars, house parties and cultish self-help seminars, washing up in each other's lives once again.A wise and searching depiction of a generation grappling with privilege and finding grace in failure, Private Citizens is as expansively intelligent as it is full of heart.*A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016 – SELECTED BY JONATHAN FRANZEN*