'Undermajordomo Minor' by Patrick deWitt

Simpleton Lucien Minor sets out into the world in search of “something to happen”. This book is at once an adventure and a satire on adventures, a celebration of storytelling and a playful pushing of storytelling clichés a little further and just a little further until they fall suddenly into the unexpected. Unrelentingly deadpan, with constantly undercut characters and wonderfully hammed dialogue, the book is at once a satire on ‘bad’ writing and an unbroken string of small linguistic firecrackers. No sentence is left unturned.

Nov '15