Amanda et Clay, des Blancs new-yorkais, partent en vacances avec leurs deux enfants à Long Island. Tout va pour le mieux jusqu'à ce qu'un bruit sourd résonne dans le lointain. Peu de temps après, les propriétaires, un couple d'Afro-Américains, surpris sur la route par une soudaine panne d'électricité, demandent l'hospitalité. Amanda et Clay n'ont d'autres choix que d'accepter. Leur séjour de rêve prend fin brutalement.
Désormais sans lien avec le monde extérieur, sont-ils en sécurité ? Peuvent-ils se fier les uns aux autres ? Hypocrisie, peur de l'autre, chacun affronte l'inconcevable à sa façon dans ce huis clos oppressant et sans concession.
''Easily the best thing I have read all year'' KILEY REID, AUTHOR OF SUCH A FUN AGE ''You will probably need to read it in as close to one sitting as possible '' SUNDAY TIMES ''Simply breathtaking . . . An extraordinary book, at once smart, gripping and hallucinatory'' OBSERVER ''A page-turner taking in themes of isolation, race and class'' GUARDIAN ***THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*** A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong Amanda and Clay head to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a holiday: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter and a taste of the good life in the luxurious home they''ve rented for the week. But with a late-night knock on the door, the spell is broken. Ruth and G. H., an older couple who claim to own the home, have arrived there in a panic. These strangers say that a sudden power outage has swept the city, and - with nowhere else to turn - they have come to the country in search of shelter.
But with the TV and internet down, and no phone service, the facts are unknowable. Should Amanda and Clay trust this couple - and vice versa? What has happened back in New York? Is the holiday home, isolated from civilisation, a truly safe place for their families? And are they safe from one another?
_______ SOON TO BE A MAJOR GLOBAL NETFLIX ADAPTATION STARRING DENZEL WASHINGTON AND JULIA ROBERTS SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2020 Everyone is talking about LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND ''A book that could have been tailor-made for our times'' The Times ''An exceptional examination of race and class and what the world looks like when it''s ending'' Roxane Gay ''A thrilling book - one that will speak to readers who have felt the terror of isolation in these recent months and one that will simultaneously, as great books do, lift them out of it'' Vogue ''Explores complex ideas about privilege and fate with miraculous wit and grace'' Jenny Offill ''For the reader, the invisible terror outside in Leave the World Behind echoes the sense of disquiet today in a world convulsed by the pandemic'' Financial Times ''Alam''s achievement is to see that his genre''s traditional arc, which relies on the idea of aftermath, no longer makes sense. Today, disaster novels call for something different'' New Yorker ''Read it with the lights on'' Jenna Bush Hager, October Book Club pick
The exhilarating new novel from the author of Leave the World Behind - ''the book of an era'' (Independent)
''These characters, their money, and their morality come together in an absolutely devastating thunderclap'' KILEY REID, bestselling author of Come and Get It
Money talks. But what if it lies?
An ambitious young woman, plotting her way into the world of the one percent.
An old white billionaire, facing his own extinction.
He''s attracted to her intelligence, her refusal to be deferential, maybe also her Blackness.
She''s drawn to his power and money - and his apparent willingness to share both with her.
But how far is each prepared to go to get what they think they deserve?
Taut, unsettling, and alive to the seductive distortions of money, Entitlement is a biting tale for our new gilded age.
*A GUARDIAN HIGHLIGHT FOR 2024*
Praise for Leave the World Behind
''Alam is a worthy descendant of Don DeLillo'' SUNDAY TIMES
''A book that could have been tailor-made for our times'' THE TIMES
''Intense, incisive, I loved this'' DAVID NICHOLLS
''I was hooked from the opening pages'' CLARE MACKINTOSH>
This irresistible debut, set against a backdrop of privileged New York City, provides a sharp, insightful look into how the relationship between two best friends changes when they are no longer coming of age but learning how to live adult lives.
