In Our Mad and Furious City : Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018 Condition:Good Philip Yenawine

Philip Yenawine

Tim Harford thinks it does

Palmer invites us to listen to the inner teacher and follow its leadings toward a sense of meaning and purpose

Theories of Meaning

year after year

In Our Mad and Furious City : Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018 Condition:Good Philip YenawineFor Selvon, Ardan, and Yusuf, growing up under the towers of Stones Estate, summer means what it does anywhere: football, music, and freedom, but now, after the killing of a British soldier, riots are spreading across the city, and nowhere is safe. While the fury swirls around them, Selvon and Ardan remain focused on their own obsessions, girls, and grime. Their friend Yusuf is caught up in a different tide, a wave of radicalism surging through his