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Three men are preparing to do battle. Their goal is a prestigious literary prize. And each man will do anything to win it. For the young Beginner, loved by critics more than readers, it means fame. For The Master, old, exhausted, preoccupied with his prostate, it means money. And for The Writer-successful, vain and in his prime-it is a matter of life and death. As the rivals lie, cheat and plot their way to victory, their paths crossing with ex-wives, angry girlfriends, preening publishers and a strange black parrot, the day of the Prize Ceremony takes on a far darker significance than they could have imagined.

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<p> With Filippo Bologna's mastery of language, the results are brilliant and amusement is guaranteed. La Repubblica <p><p> A flaying parody of the literary world and its vanities. Il Giornale <p>

The writer is Italian and so are his characters, but this very funny satire about the stuffy little world of literature could be set anywhere... It's a hoot, written with a shrewd eye for the absurdity of certain literary egos The Times A five-star satire on literary vanity ... A wonderful, surprising novel with a rich payload of emotion behind the caricature Metro Very funny ... lucidly translated -- Lucy Popescu Huffington Post [Bologna's] smart new novel ... [has a] smooth, knowing narrator ... shrewd and precise, often comic, with a cool eye for the truth of these characters -- Daniel Hahn Independent A satire of Swiftian rancour... the parrots of the title act as apt metaphors for the endless churn of appropriation and pastiche that passes for literary originality... Bologna has a gift, preserved in Howard Curtis's crisp translation, for the comically jolting simile -- Nat Segnit TLS

The writer is Italian and so are his characters, but this very funny satire about the stuffy little world of literature could be set anywhere... It's a hoot, written with a shrewd eye for the absurdity of certain literary egos The Times A five-star satire on literary vanity ... A wonderful, surprising novel with a rich payload of emotion behind the caricature Metro With Filippo Bologna's mastery of language, the results are brilliant and amusement is guaranteed. La Repubblica A flaying parody of the literary world and its vanities. Il Giornale

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Filippo Bologna was born in Tuscany in 1978. He lives in Rome where he works as a writer and screenwriter. His debut novel How I Lost the War is also published by Pushkin Press.

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