Georges Perec: Things: A Story of the Sixties with A Man Asleep [2011] paperback ZCRIT *An Oprah's Book Club Pick*

*An Oprah's Book Club Pick*

England has become a corrupt

primary school

because more shocking choices and sacrifices lie ahead

Priya Satia shows how these historians not only interpreted the major political events of their time but also shaped the future that followed

Georges Perec: Things: A Story of the Sixties with A Man Asleep [2011] paperback ZCRIT *An Oprah's Book Club Pick*Things: A Story of the Sixties is the story of a young couple who want to enjoy life, but the only way they know how to do so is through ownership of 'things'. Perec's first novel won the Prix Renaudot and became the cult book for a generation. In A Man Asleep, a young student embarks upon a disturbing and exhaustive pursuit of indifference, following his experience in non existence with relentless logic.