Universality

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • “A bold and memorable achievement.”—The Booker Prize 2025 judges Remember—words are your weapons, they’re your tools, your currency : a twisty, slippery descent into the rhetoric of power, hailed as “a nesting doll of satire that leaves readers uncertain where their loyalties lie” ( Financial Times ) “Original, vital, and unputdownable.”—Tess Gunty, National Book Award–winning author of The Rabbit Hutch Late one night on a Yorkshire farm, in the midst of an ille