Chuck Palahniuk: Pygmy
Sunday, 19 April 2009
I remember being blown away by Chuck Palahniuk’s 1996 novel (and the movie adaptation) ‘Fight Club’. I have to admit that I have only read two of novels, but he is certainly a novelist that I hold in high regard, with his cynical and dark humour, minimalist writing style and subversive demeanour. I am, therefore, highly anticipating his forthcoming novel - Pygmy.
Pygmy is “about terrorism and racism. The lead character is a 13-year-old foreign exchange student sent to live with a suburban, white, middle-class [Christian] family… The visit is for six months, and he’s one of a dozen similar kids, all shipped to America to live with typical families. The secret truth is that Pygmy is a terrorist, trained since infancy in martial arts, chemistry and radical hatred of the United States. He has six months to build a prize-winning project for the National Science Fair. If he succeeds, he and his project will go to Washington, D.C. for the finals competition - where the project will explode, killing millions.”
Here is the awesome cover designed by Rodrigo Corral:
The book will be out in May 2009. Preorder it here.