The Porcupine
- Author Julian Barnes
- Narrator Daniel Rigby
- Publisher Random House
- Run Time 3 hours and 41 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Historical fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Satirical fiction and parodies.
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What to expect
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Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011
Stoyo Petkanov, the deposed Party leader of a former Soviet satellite country, is on trial. His adversary, the prosecutor general, stands for the new government's ideals and liberal certainties, and is attempting to ensare Petkanov with the dictator's own totalitarian laws. But Petkanov is not beaten yet. He has been given his chance to fight back and he takes it with a vengeance, to the increasing discomfort and surprise of those around him.
© Julian Barnes 1992 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
Critics Review
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Critics have overlooked his tenderness, underestimated his intelligence, and denied his wisdom… The Porcupine is a superbly accomplished novella
Nick Hornby -
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 -
The neatness of the novel’s structure is complemented by the rampageous energy of the characters for which it is the cage
Daily Telegraph
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