Demon Copperhead with delivery to Ireland

WINNER OF THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION
Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction
‘An extraordinary novel’ – OPRAH WINFREY
‘[The author] intends to save us by telling us all kinds of stories… She does it better than anyone else I know’ – ANN PATCHETT
„Demon Copperhead” is a brilliant novel that enchants, grips and moves you to the core as it traces a young hero’s remarkable journey to adulthood. Set in the southern Appalachians, „Demon Copperhead” is the story of a boy born to a teenage single mother in a trailer, who has nothing but the red hair and good looks inherited from his late father, a caustic wit and an indomitable talent for survival. In his own unsparingly honest voice, Demon describes the problems of the modern world: foster care, child labour, neglected schools, sporting success, addiction, ruinous loves and devastating losses. At the same time, he has to face the fact that he himself remains invisible in popular culture, because even superheroes have abandoned the provinces and prefer big cities. Generations ago, Charles Dickens drew on his own experience when writing „Davida Copperfielda”, as he knew poverty and its harmful effect on children at first hand. The problems that plagued the society of his day remain unsolved to this day. By transposing the Victorian novel to the realities of the modern American South, Barbara Kingsolver channels the anger and compassion of the nineteenth-century author and, above all, his belief that a good story can change reality. „Demon Copperhead” speaks for a new generation of lost boys and for all those born in beautiful yet cursed places that they cannot leave.