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Der desillusionierte Mittzwanziger Gabriel Brockwell, Ästhet, Poet und Philosoph hat das Leben satt und will ihm ein Ende setzen. Doch warum nicht vorher das Leben auf die Spitze treiben und noch einmal aus dem Vollen schöpfen, was hat man zu verlieren, wenn man eh den Selbstmord plant. Und so macht er sich auf zu einer Odyssee um die Welt,London, Tokyo, Berlin und die Galapagosinseln, auf der Suche nach Vergnügen und Genuss. Vielleicht findet er ja aber noch etwas ganz anderes auf seiner Reise: die Lust am Leben?

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The spectacular third novel from DBC Pierre, one of the great storytellers of his generation.

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Gabriel Brockwell, aesthete, poet, philosopher, disaffected twenty-something decadent, is looking to end it all with one last journey of excess.

Taking in London, Tokyo, Berlin and the Galapagos Islands, Lights Out In Wonderland documents Gabriel Brockwell´s remarkable global odyssey. Committed to the pursuit of pleasure to obliterate all previous parties, Gabriel´s adventure takes in a spell in rehab, a near-death experience with fugu ovaries, a sexual encounter with an octopus, and finally an orgiastic feast in the bowels of Berlin´s majestic Tempelhof Airport. Along the way we see a character disintegrate and re-shape before our eyes.

An allegorical banquet and a sly commentary on the march towards mindless banality, DBC Pierre´s third novel is an unexpectedly joyful expression of the human spirit.

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When not travelling far and wide DBC Pierre divides his time between England and a mountainside in Ireland. Vernon God Little , his debut novel, won the Man Booker Prize and the Whitbread First Novel Award, and was followed by Ludmila´s Broken English and Lights Out in Wonderland . He is also the author of a collection of short fictions, Petit Mal , and a Hammer novella, Breakfast with the Borgias .

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