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By: Tony Tulathimutte
Narrated by: Micky Shiloah, Allyson Ryan, Quincy Surasmith, Dan Bittner, André Santana, Marcha Kia, Eunice Wong, Madeleine Maby
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‘The funniest book I’ve read for a long time’ DAVID NICHOLLS

‘Utterly ruthless’ NEW YORK TIMES

‘Addictive … I loved it!’ RUFI THORPE

‘Twistedly funny’ VINCENZO LATRONICO

‘Razor-sharp … impossible to put down’ JACK EDWARDS

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION

Written with the accomplished authority of a modern classic and the manic intensity of a loser's manifesto, Rejection radically redefines what it means to be rejected by lovers, friends, society and oneself.

We see a tryhard male feminist's passionate allyship turn to a furious nihilism as he realises that his feminism isn’t getting him laid and a young woman’s unrequited crush spirals into borderline obsession. As these characters pop up in each other’s dating apps and social media feeds, or meet in dimly lit bars and bedrooms, they reveal the ways that our delusions can warp our desire for connection.

A Book of the Year in Guardian, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New Yorker, TIME, Vanity Fair, GQ, Service95 and more.

A Jack Edwards Inklings Book Club Pick

‘Extremely dark … laugh-out-loud funny’ GUARDIAN

‘Divinely appalling’ SCOTSMAN

‘Perversely funny’ FINANCIAL TIMES

‘The funniest, darkest thing’ ST. VINCENT

‘Blistering … takes a magnifying glass to the mind of the internet age’ VOGUE

‘An excruciating examination of modern losers in psychic distress’ THE TIMES

‘Tulathimutte is a pervert and a madman and a stone-cold genius’ CARMEN MARIA MACHADO, author of In the Dream House

‘You will be crawling out of your skin’ JIA TOLENTINO, author of Trick Mirror

‘Mad, madcap genius’ GARTH GREENWELL, author of Small Rain

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Didn’t expect to find the phrase ‘listening to Blind Guardian and Bal Sagoth’ in a literary novel, but it sums up how this book gets the microspecificity of being on the internet

Feelbad read of the year

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The author is excellent at writing different and original voices. I laughed out loud at repression chapters.

Original and clever. Very enjoyable.

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Great writing and very well read / performed. Everyone needs this book in their life. The voice of main character sent me

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I was so immersed I finished it in one day. The characters are weird in a fun way

Different character yet all interconnected

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