2024 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction (finalist)
2023 Goldsmiths Prize (nominee)
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 GOLDSMITHS PRIZE*
It's the eighteenth-century and Celine is in trouble
'A terrific novel'
FINANCIAL TIMES
'A radically beautiful new novel'
SHEILA HETI, author of Pure Colour
Paris, 1775: Celine's husband is mostly absent. Her parents are elsewhere. Meanwhile men are inventing stories about her - about her affairs, her sexuality, and addictions...
All these stories are lies, but the public loves them - spreading them like a virus. Celine can only watch as her name becomes a symbol for everything rotten in this society ruled by men high on colonial genocide, natural destruction, and crimes against women. To survive, Celine and her friends must band together in search of justice, truth and beauty.
Fantastical, funny and blindingly bright, The Future Future follows one woman on an urgently contemporary quest to clear her name and change the world.
Genre: Literary Fiction
It's the eighteenth-century and Celine is in trouble
'A terrific novel'
FINANCIAL TIMES
'A radically beautiful new novel'
SHEILA HETI, author of Pure Colour
Paris, 1775: Celine's husband is mostly absent. Her parents are elsewhere. Meanwhile men are inventing stories about her - about her affairs, her sexuality, and addictions...
All these stories are lies, but the public loves them - spreading them like a virus. Celine can only watch as her name becomes a symbol for everything rotten in this society ruled by men high on colonial genocide, natural destruction, and crimes against women. To survive, Celine and her friends must band together in search of justice, truth and beauty.
Fantastical, funny and blindingly bright, The Future Future follows one woman on an urgently contemporary quest to clear her name and change the world.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Praise for this book
"The Future Future weaves together so many different wisps of reality, creating something radically beautiful. Here, we see the celestial and the political sharing the same plane, inventing wondrous new ways of understanding history, friendship and time." - Sheila Heti
"The Future Future is Adam Thirlwell's best novel-but it's also the best novel anyone else has written anywhere for many years. Daring, funny, powerful and deeply imaginative-asking profound questions about the nature of revolution, about the rules of history and power, and about the strange times we find ourselves in." - Daniel Kehlmann
"Sex, revolution and death in eighteenth-century France and America, described in the language of the future, and featuring an astonishing visit to the moon. A dazzling performance, unlike anything else you'll read this (or any other) year." - Salman Rushdie
"A book filled with imaginative leaps, brave decisions and tiny details that give delight." - Colm Tóibín
"A landmark-precisely because it's so deeply embedded in our history and is so unthinkably original." - Edmund White
"The Future Future is Adam Thirlwell's best novel-but it's also the best novel anyone else has written anywhere for many years. Daring, funny, powerful and deeply imaginative-asking profound questions about the nature of revolution, about the rules of history and power, and about the strange times we find ourselves in." - Daniel Kehlmann
"Sex, revolution and death in eighteenth-century France and America, described in the language of the future, and featuring an astonishing visit to the moon. A dazzling performance, unlike anything else you'll read this (or any other) year." - Salman Rushdie
"A book filled with imaginative leaps, brave decisions and tiny details that give delight." - Colm Tóibín
"A landmark-precisely because it's so deeply embedded in our history and is so unthinkably original." - Edmund White
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