num_pages: 176
description: A novel rich in comic menace from the author of The Restraint of BeastsIn a setting Samuel Beckett might have found homey lives a man in a house made of tin. He is content. The tin house is well constructed and located miles from the tin houses of his nearest neighbors. Though he seems to have escaped society, however, society finds him.One day, a woman arrives and moves in. Soon a neighbor comes to visit, and then another. Soon, moving figures silhouette the horizon. People dismantling their tin houses and setting off to find a master builder with a revolutionary message. The gravitational pull cannot be resisted.Nor can this novel. Part mystery, part parable, Three to See the King stalks the reader’s imagination and grows inexorably and irresistibly in the telling.
language: English
title: Three to See the King
titlecomplete: Three to See the King
genres: Literature, Literary Fiction, Novels, Modern, Fiction, Humor, Fantasy, Contemporary, British Literature
ratings_count: 1269
publisher: Picador