num_pages: 406
description: A gritty yet sublimely intelligent psychological thriller, this book is a return to the vivid, unsettling urban underworld Thomson explored in his first two novels. "We are in the dark side of the brain, full of grief and deliciously strange comedy. I've never read anything like it, " writes Michael Ondaatje, author of The English Patient.
language: English
title: The Insult
titlecomplete: The Insult
genres: Literary Fiction, Literature, Fiction, Crime, Contemporary, Thriller, Modern, British Literature, Novels, Mystery
ratings_count: 1225
publisher: Alfred A. Knopf