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Slumberland

Paul Beatty

2008256 pagesabout 4–6 hours
2008
first published
  • 2008Penguin Random House · 256 pages · ENGISBN 9781846552427
  • 2009Penguin Random House · ENGISBN 9780099526841
  • 2010Penguin Random House · ENGISBN 9781409079774
  • 2017Oneworld Publications · 256 pages · ENGISBN 9781786072221
  • 2021Farrar, Straus & Giroux · 256 pages · ENGISBN 9780374602284
  • 2009Bloomsbury USA · 256 pagesISBN 9781596912410
  • 2021Picador · 256 pagesISBN 9781250789419
  • 2008Bloomsbury USA · 256 pages · ENGISBN 9781596912403

The hip break-out novel from 2016 Man Booker Prize winning author, Paul Beatty, about a disaffected Los Angeles DJ who travels to post-Wall Berlin in search of his transatlantic doppelganger. Hailed by the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times as one of the best writers of his generation, Paul Beatty turns his creative eye to man's search for meaning and identity in an increasingly chaotic world. After creating the perfect beat, DJ Darky goes in search of Charles Stone, a little know avant-garde jazzman, to play over his sonic masterpiece. His quest brings him to a recently unified Berlin, where he stumbles through the city's dreamy streets ruminating about race, sex, love, Teutonic gods , the prevent defense, and Wynton Marsalis in search of his artistic-and spiritual-other. Ferocious, bombastic, and laugh-out-loud funny, Slumberland is vintage Paul Beatty.

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