Entitlement

Alam, Rumaan

£16.99

Brooke is 33, resolutely single and slightly adrift. She wants her work and life to have meaning – and she finds it at the Asher and Carol Jaffee Foundation, where she’s tasked with assisting an octogenarian billionaire in the noble quest to give away his hard-earned fortune. When Asher Jaffee takes a special interest in Brooke, it’s hard for her not to fall under his spell. He’s attracted to her intelligence, her willingness to spar with him, her refusal to be deferential. She’s intoxicated by the proximity to his money and power – and his apparent willingness to share both with her. Asher offers Brooke a first-hand look at how the 1% truly live and work: above the rest of us in an atmosphere that exists only for them. But before long, being under Asher’s wing is not enough, and Brooke finds herself in deep water as she blurs the lines between what belongs to Asher, and what should belong to her.

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Publish Date: 19/09/2024

Description

The exhilarating new novel from the author of Leave the World Behind – ‘the book of an era’ (Independent)

‘A slow-burn tale of connivance and deceit with a knockout ending’ OBSERVER
‘These characters, their money and their morality come together in an absolutely devastating thunderclap’ KILEY REID

Money talks. But what if it lies?

An ambitious young Black woman, plotting her way into the world of the one percent.
An old white billionaire, facing his own extinction.
He’s attracted to her intelligence, her refusal to be deferential, maybe also her Blackness.
She’s drawn to his power and money – and his apparent willingness to share both with her.
But how far is each prepared to go to get what they think they deserve?

Taut, unsettling, and alive to the seductive distortions of money, Entitlement is a biting tale for our new gilded age.

*A GUARDIAN HIGHLIGHT FOR 2024*

Praise for Leave the World Behind
‘Alam is a worthy descendant of Don DeLillo’ SUNDAY TIMES
‘A book that could have been tailor-made for our times’ THE TIMES
‘Intense, incisive, I loved this’ DAVID NICHOLLS
‘I was hooked from the opening pages’ CLARE MACKINTOSH

Additional information

Dimensions 234 × 153 mm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Hardback

Pages

288

Language

English

Edition

Hardback original

Dewey

813.6 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K