Lost Empress

A Naked Singularity is a novel by Stuart Kelly that follows the story of Nina Gill, the daughter of the ageing owner of the Dallas Cowboys, and Nuno DeAngeles, a brilliant criminal mastermind who is thrown into Rikers Island prison. They have a profound effect on each other's lives, as their bids for freedom and sporting immortality reach crisis point. The novel is thrilling, touching, insightful, and shockingly hilarious, getting under the skin and into the minds of a vast cast of characters from the fringes of society.

Format: Hardback
Length: 640 pages
Publication date: 23 August 2018
Publisher: Quercus Publishing

Ambitious, affecting, intelligent, poignant, comic, kooky, and impassioned. I've read a lot of novels this year, between judging the Man Booker prize and the Granta Best of Young British Novelists, and I've yearned for this kind of exuberant, precise fiction. Stuart Kelly, Guardian, on A Naked Singularity. It would take something huge to put Paterson, New Jersey, on the map. But Nina Gill is determined to do just that. She is the daughter of the ageing owner of the Dallas Cowboys, and the well-kept secret to their success. Shocked when her brother inherits the team, leaving her with the Paterson Pork, New Jersey's only Indoor Football League franchise, she vows to take on the N.F.L. and make her new team the pigskin kings of America. Meanwhile, Nuno DeAngeles, a brilliant criminal mastermind, contrives to be thrown into Rikers Island prison to commit one of the most audacious crimes of all time. Now he's on the inside, he has two good reasons to get out. But how does a person of culture go about breaking out of the penal system when the whole of the land of the free is addicted to keeping him in it? Without knowing it, or ever having met, Nina and Nuno have already had a profound effect on each other's lives. As his bid for freedom and her bid for sporting immortality reach crisis point, their stories converge in the countdown to an epic conclusion. Thrilling, touching, insightful, and shockingly hilarious, De La Pava's extraordinary novel gets under the skin and into the minds of a vast cast of characters from the fringes of society—immigrants, exiles, and outsiders.

Weight: 952g
Dimension: 231 x 166 x 52 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780857058058