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Novel leave the world behind6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It might sound frivolous, but in his world, those things are anything but: food, he says, is a marker of class. “Do you think this president will do the right thing about it?” The novel’s nameless narrator muses in response: “This kind of thing used to sound like paranoia, but now it was just pragmatism.”Īlam’s keen sense of our time is also laid bare in his vivid descriptions of food and grocery purchases. “Let’s say something happens in New York City,” GH Washington wonders at one point. I need to have music playing and a cup of tea and all of these things.’ But those ideal conditions don't really work, and you can't overthink that stuff.”Īlam’s characters share our contemporary world, with a 45th US president who “ to have dementia”. “People can pathologise their own process and they'll go, ‘I need to have absolute silence. Using the platform that way, with the constraint of the 280-character limit, was a liberating “psychological trick”. This is an author who began workshopping Leave the World Behind on a private Twitter account, which helped him find the right voice for the book. But there’s also something electrifyingly modern about his work. ![]()
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