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  <about><![CDATA[DBC Pierre is a Mexican writer. Born Peter Warren Finlay, the &quot;DBC&quot; stands for &quot;Dirty But Clean&quot;. &quot;Pierre&quot; was a nickname bestowed on him by childhood friends after a cartoon character of that name. <br/><br/>Pierre was awarded the Booker Prize for fiction on 14 October 2003 for his novel Vernon God Little. <br/><br/>He is the third Australian to be so honoured, although he has told the British press that he prefers to consider himself a Mexican.]]></about>
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    <![CDATA[Vernon God Little]]>
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    <![CDATA[The surprise winner of the 2003 Man Booker Prize, DBC Pierre's debut novel, <em>Vernon God Little</em>, makes few apologies in its darkly comedic portrait of Martirio, Texas, a town reeling in the aftermath of a horrific school shooting. Fifteen-year-old Vernon Little narrates the first-person story with a cynical twang and a four-letter barb for each of his diet-obsessed townsfolk. His mother, endlessly awaiting the delivery of a new refrigerator, seems to exist only to twist an emotional knife in his back; her friend, Palmyra, structures her life around the next meal at the Bar-B-Chew Barn; officer Vaine Gurie has Vernon convicted of the crime before she's begun the investigation; reporter Eulalio Ledesma hovers between a comforting father-figure and a sadistic Bond villain; and Jesus, his best friend in the world, is dead--a victim of the killings. As his life explodes before him, Vernon flees his home in pursuit of a tropical fantasy: a cabin on a beach in Mexico he once saw in the movie <em>Against All Odds</em>. But the police--and TV crews--are in hot pursuit. <p>  <em>Vernon God Little</em> is a daring novel and demands a patient reader, not because it is challenging to read--Pierre's prose flows effortlessly, only occasionally slipping from the unmistakable voice of his hero--but because the book skates so precariously between the almost taboo subject of school violence and the literary gamesmanship of postmodern fiction. Yet, as the novel unfolds, Pierre's parodic version of American culture never crosses the line into caricature, even when it climaxes in a death-row reality TV show. And Vernon, whose cynicism and smart-ass &quot;learnings&quot; give way to a poignant curiosity about the meaning of life, becomes a fully human, profoundly sympathetic character. <em>--Patrick O'Kelley</em></p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[Ludmila's Broken English: A Novel]]>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>&quot;A mix of offbeat composition and intoxicating insight....A maddeningly entertaining encore.&quot;&#151;<em>Publishers Weekly</em>, starred review</strong><br/><br/>A wild and brilliant tale by the winner of the Man Booker Prize and one of our most original storytellers. On a Tuesday in terror-struck London, Blair and Bunny Heath become the first adult conjoined twins ever successfully separated. On a Tuesday in the war-torn Caucasus, Ludmila Derev accidentally kills her grandfather. By December, they find themselves trudging together through a snow field, staring down the barrel of a rebel's gun.<br/><br/>Ludmila sets out on a journey west to save her family from starvation and marauding Gnez troops. Hers is an odyssey of sour wit, even sourer vodka, and a Soviet tractor probably running on goat's piss. The Heath twins are released from a newly privatized institution rumored to have been founded for an illegitimate royal baby. They are plunged into a round-the-clock world churning with opportunity, rowdy with the chatter of freedom, self-empowerment, and sex. Dangerous cocktails and a Russian Brides Web site throw these unforgettable characters together with explosive results.<br/><br/>DBC Pierre's second novel confirms his place in the ranks of today's most audacious and acclaimed novelists.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Jesus von Texas]]>
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    <![CDATA[ Woher kennen wir Amerika? Durch die Medien, <em>Die Simpsons</em>, <em>Ally McBeal</em> oder <em>Bowling for Columbine</em>. Was der Australier D.B.C. Pierre in seinem Debütroman über das Land erzählt, lässt nur einen Schluss zu: Es ist alles noch viel schlimmer!<p>  &quot;Shit Happened&quot; heißt der erste Akt dieser Tragikomödie und benennt damit ein Leitmotiv. Vernon Little ist knapp 16, als Jesus, sein einziger Freund, durchdreht und 16 Mitschüler erschießt. Während der eine schießt -- auch Pierre lässt keinen Kalauer aus --, muss der andere scheißen. Das rettet ihm das Leben und versaut es. Weil Vernon das peinliche Alibi für sich behält und der &quot;Mexikaner-Bengel2 Jesus tot ist, bekommt er die volle Wucht des Volkszorns zu spüren. Und die manipulative Macht der Medienmeute, die für die Karriere sprichwörtlich über Leichen geht und die eigene Mutter verleugnet.<p>  In diese Versuchung gerät auch Vernon, denn Doris Little, die schon mal Selbstmordversuche mittels Elektroherd unternimmt, macht ihn &quot;abwechselnd wütend und traurig&quot;. Wie Doris mit ihren Freundinnen kurz nach dem Massaker über Diäten diskutiert oder ihrer neuen Kücheneinrichtung entgegenfiebert, das wäre zum weinen, wenn es nicht so komisch wäre. Dann wirft sie sich dem TV-Journalisten Lally an den Hals und als dessen Intrigen ihren Sohn in die Todeszelle bringen, stellt sie liebevoll eine Henkersmahlzeit zusammen, mit Krautsalat, &quot;wegen der Gesundheit&quot;.<p>  Wer einen Schaden hat, braucht für den Spott nicht zu sorgen -- nach diesem Motto werden wir über einen <em>Jahrmarkt der Eitelkeiten</em> geführt. Dort taumelt ein rundherum unschuldiger Held durch medial inszenierte Geisterbahnen und Spiegelkabinette und glaubt bis zum Schluss daran, dass &quot;die gute alte Wahrheit im Anmarsch ist&quot;. Keine Institution, ob Schule, Justiz oder Fernsehen, bleibt ungeschoren. Vernons Leben gerät zur ultimativen Reality-Show: Kameras im Todestrakt, per TED werden Kandidaten für die Giftspritze ermittelt.<p>  Die Politik hat abgedankt, Richter und Reporter haben das Sagen -- fiese Figuren, überzeichnet, aber beängstigend real. Lally und die anderen &quot;Bösen&quot; sind nur Teil des allgemeinen &quot;menschlichen Schleimgulaschs&quot;, einer pervers-bigott-materialistischen Gesellschaft, für die die Diagnose lauten muss: unheilbar krank.<p>  Was so sozialkritisch klingt, ist über weite Strecken ein Heidenspaß. Wegen der saftigen Sprache, weil die Moral von der Geschicht fehlt und Vernon mit seinen Verbalattacken schnell unser Herz gewinnt. Für einige ist es &quot;das erste Buch des Jahres&quot;, eventuell die Übersetzung des Jahres. Huckleberry Finn, Holden Caulfield, bitte aufrücken! <em>--Patrick Fischer</em></p></p></p></p></p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[Le Bouc Hémisphère : Une farce macabre du XXIe siècle]]>
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    <![CDATA[Il y en a qui se retrouvent au mauvais endroit au mauvais moment. C'est comme ça. Vernon est ce genre de gars-là. Légèrement déjanté, obsédé et facétieux, l'adolescent se retrouve accusé de complicité de meurtre en moins de temps qu'il n'en faut pour le dire. Du témoignage, on passe aux suppositions, des suppositions à l'enquête et de l'enquête au procès. Et voilà notre Vernon avec ses réactions trop impassibles d'adolescent désabusé devenir le coupable idéal. Trop détaché du monde pour être honnête ce garçon. Les journalistes s'en donnent à c&#156;ur joie pour trouver sous l'apparente apathie du garçon une pulsion de meurtrier, sa mère clame qu'elle est prête à tout lui pardonner, ses potes le charrient, les psy cherchent à comprendre et les flics se disent qu'il n'y a pas à chercher trop loin : si le gamin passe aux aveux, ça fera une affaire classée. Ça sent le roussi pour Vernon. <br/> Dans la veine des Fante, Selby, et Ellroy, DBC Pierre décrit une société américaine qui pourrait prêter à rire si elle n'était pas aussi tragiquement consternante. Le sous-titre du roman, comme une indication donnée au sens de la lecture, nous prévient. Le livre se présente comme une &quot;farce macabre du XXIe siècle&quot;. On rit donc beaucoup dans ce roman désopilant. Et c'est surtout parce qu'on y rit jaune qu'on échappe de justesse à son humeur très noire. <em>--Denis Gombert</em>]]>
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