Lelic, Simon

Fans of Saramago's Blindness will be blown away by this a chilling election-year fable for our current era of universal surveillance and corporate control of media and its perverse influence on politics. Lelic's prose is lean and cinematic and brilliantly conveys his characters' justified paranoia. His lastest (after The Child Who) reads like the classic post-war British fiction of Margaret Atwood, Anthony Burgess, and William Golding.