WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018` Marvellously, endearingly, unexpectedly funny` Gary Shteyngart` Bedazzling, bewitching & be-wonderful` New York Times Book Review`A fast & rocketing read... a wonderful, wonderful book!` Karen Joy Fowler Arthur Less is a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the post: it is from an ex-boyfriend of nine years who is engaged to someone else. Arthur can`t say yes
- it would be too awkward; he can`t say no
- it would look like defeat. So, he begins to accept the invitations on his desk to half-baked literary events around the world. From France to India, Germany to Japan, Arthur almost falls in love, almost falls to his death, & puts miles between him & the plight he refuses to face. Less is a novel about mishaps, misunderstandings & the depths of the human heart.