num_pages: 243
description: The breakout novel from a literary virtuoso about a disaffected Los Angeles DJ who travels to post-Wall Berlin in search of his transatlantic doppelganger.Hailed by the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times as one of the best writers of his generation Paul Beatty turns his incisive eye to mans search for meaning and identity in an increasingly chaotic world. After creating the perfect beat DJ Darky goes in search of Charles Stone a little-known avant-garde jazzman to play over his sonic masterpiece. His quest brings him to a recently unified Berlin where he stumbles through the citys dreamy streets ruminating about race sex love Teutonic gods the prevent defense and Wynton Marsalis in search of his artisticand spiritualother. Ferocious bombastic and laugh-out-loud funny Slumberland is vintage Paul Beatty and belongs on the shelf next to Jonathan Lethem Colson Whitehead and Junot Diaz.
language: English
title: Slumberland
publisher: Bloomsbury USA