Dark Diversions

John Ralston Saul

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Penguin Books Ltd
04 April 2013

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

A pitch-black comic novel about money and corruption from one of the world's leading thinkers

Intrigue, prestige, debauchery- Dark Diversions by acclaimed author John Ralston Saul is a black comedy of international proportions.

From aristocrats and the privileged circles of New York and Paris to military dictators and the political infighting, double-dealing and corruption or their regimes in Morocco and Haiti, welcome to the world where money and power reside. Through a series of encounters with its inhabitants, at once beguiling and grotesque, our investigative narrator uncovers bizarrre and disturbing stories of secret lovers, exiled princesses, religious heresies and murder. But as he becomes further enmeshed in this savage realm, his ambiguous status becomes increasingly unsettling- is he the impartial observer of priviliged foibles and fundamental inequity he appears to be? Or is he, perhaps, an embodiment of the dark diversions he chronicles?

Laced with scathing wit, Dark Diversions is a novel that inveigls its reader on a picaresque journey of depravity.

By: John Ralston Saul
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 1mm
Weight: 145g
ISBN: 9780241964996
ISBN 10: 0241964997
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 04 April 2013
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

John Ralston Saul is Canada's leading public intellectual. Declared a 'prophet' by Time magazine, Saul has received many awards and prizes, including Chile's Pablo Neruda Medal. He is president of PEN International, and his thirteen works have been translated into twenty-two languages in thirty countries. Dark Diversions is his sixth novel.

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