The Tyrant's Novel Ian McEwan After the bounding brilliance of

After the bounding brilliance of mole clowns

It’s creepy

during WWII

A fourth book in the successful 'Pure Dead' series

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The Tyrant's Novel Ian McEwan After the bounding brilliance ofImagine a Middle Eastern country that was once a friend of the West becoming an enemy, its people starving and savagely repressed by a tyrant known as Great Uncle. As a celebrated writer and war hero, the man who here relates his story has a better life than most, until he is made an offer he can't refuse. He must write a great novel, telling of the suffering of his people under the enemy's cruel economic sanctions and portraying Great Uncle as their