Debut novel from an award-winning playwright BREATH-TAKING WRITING: Three Burials is a propulsive, action-packed thriller that follows an exhilarating car chase across the country. With writing that is witty, gripping and energetic, the reader will be totally captivated by this rollercoaster of a book GENRE-BENDING NOVEL: Anders Lustgarten grapples with the refugee crisis and capitalist exploitation, filling Three Burials with a radical, righteous politics, whilst also interrogating the personal, intimate nature of grief. Told with a wit and humor, Three Burials is a breathtakingly unique novel that challenges the idea of what political fiction can be REVERED, AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR: Anders Lustgarten is an esteemed writer, having won the Harold Pinter Playwrighting Award and Catherine Johnson Award for the Best Play. His plays have been performed in over forty countries FOR FANS OF: The Sellout by Paul Beatty, The Long Knives by Irvine Welsh, The Trees by Percival Everett, The Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry and the film Queen and Slim Three Burials begins in a storm just off the coast of England, where a boat full of refugees meets a boat full of riled up citizens - including several police officers - calling themselves 'Defenders of the Realm'. The resulting clash ends in tragedy. The following day, nurse Cherry finds the body of a refugee washed ashore, and in an act of radical compassion, embarks on a journey to take the body to the boy's family in the hope of giving him a proper burial. This noble ambition is complicated as the police officers infiltrated in the crime are desperate to cover up their involvement, and pursue Cherry in an exhilarating chase across the country. Watch the author introduce the book: https://www.

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