The Sellout by Paul Beatty

The Sellout by Paul BeattyBorn in the 'agrarian ghetto' of Dickens on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles the narrator of The Sellout is raised by a single father, a controversial sociologist, and spends his childhood as the subject in racially charged psychological studies. Led to believe his father's pioneering work will result in a memoir that will solve his family's financial woes, he is shocked to discover, when his father is killed in a police shoot out, that there

• The feats of the Greek hero Heracles

Rejecting the futile modern obsession with 'getting everything done

unless someone as improbable as the plan can be found to steal it

Her observations and experiences expose the bourgeois society of the south as rootless and shallow and in stark contrast to the age-old culture of the solid and less fanciful north

The classic novel Zorba the Greek is the story of two men

But before they start their descent an ice shelf collapses

desire and our faltering attempts to understand others

Six conflict specific studies done in the four countries established the need to analyse three major issues in greater detail ethnic/cultural identity

Their case seems ironclad

The author of Fight Club takes America beyond our darkest dreams in this timely satire

in the course of the 1992 presidential campaign

his attacks of mental illness and his relation with his brother Theo