{"product_id":"dr-no-percival-everett-9781035036462","title":"Dr. No (Percival Everett)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDr. No\u003c\/i\u003e is the spy thriller as you've never read it before, reinvented by Percival Everett, the twice Booker Prize-shortlisted author of \u003ci\u003eThe Trees\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eJames.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWala Kitu is a professor of mathematics at Brown University, specializing in nothing. Kitu is content with nothing - studying it, having it, doing it - until his research places him in the sights of billionaire and would-be Bond villain John Sill, who enlists the professor's help to steal a deposit of nothing from Fort Knox and use it to reduce the United States of America to nothing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSill wants vengeance for another act of all-American villainy: the murder of his father, a witness to the state-sanctioned assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. His mission is everything: 'This country has never given anything to us and it never will.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Clever, funny and mercilessly satirical.' - \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRead Percival's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel \u003ci\u003eJames\u003c\/i\u003e in paperback now.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePercival Everett is the author of over thirty books, including \u003ci\u003eTelephone\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDr No\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Trees\u003c\/i\u003e, which was shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize and won the 2022 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, and \u003ci\u003eErasure\u003c\/i\u003e, which was adapted into the major Oscar-winning film \u003ci\u003eAmerican Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e. He has received the Hurston\/Wright Legacy Award and the PEN Center USA Award for Fiction, has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California. An instant \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller in hardback, \u003ci\u003eJames \u003c\/i\u003ewas a finalist for the 2024 Orwell Prize for Fiction, was shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize and was named the Winner of the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Percival Everett lives in Los Angeles.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-format paperback, Englisch, 288 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65792675152221,"sku":"K097074804","price":11.3,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/9707480400001A.jpg?v=1788386306","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/dr-no-percival-everett-9781035036462","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}