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The hip break-out novel from 2016 Man Booker Prize winning author, Paul Beatty, about a disaffected Los Angeles DJ who travels to post-Wall Berlin in search of his transatlantic doppelganger. Hailed by the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times as one of the best writers of his generation, Paul Beatty turns his creative eye to man's search for meaning and identity in an increasingly chaotic world. After creating the perfect beat, DJ Darky goes in search of Charles Stone, a little know avant-garde jazzman, to play over his sonic masterpiece. His quest brings him to a recently unified Berlin,…
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9 editions- Paperback · English · 2021Picador · 256 pages · 9781250789419
- Paperback · English · 2009Bloomsbury USA · 256 pages · 9781596912410
- Hardcover · English · 2008Bloomsbury USA · 256 pages · 9781596912403
- Other · English · 2021Farrar, Straus & Giroux · 256 pages · 9780374602284
- Other · English · 2017Oneworld Publications · 256 pages · 9781786072221
- Other · English · 2017Oneworld Publications · 9781786072214
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