Topeka Okulu

Topeka School Book Description

With his novels, poems and essays The latest novel by Ben Lerner, who is well-known and considered one of the most important talents of today's literature, is about the Gordon family living in Topeka, Kansas: Jane, a therapist who has managed to help many women thanks to her books that appeal to large audiences and has become famous throughout the country; her husband, Jonathan, a therapist who specializes in communicating with the secretive "lost children" of white, middle-class families; The couple's high school senior son, Adam, a debate champion and rap enthusiast, who is torn between the libertarian world of his parents and the macho world of the environment he grew up in. As the school year draws to a close, Adam and his friends begin to struggle under all kinds of pressures. They try to integrate Darren, one of the despised young men of the neighborhood, into their community, but they are unaware that they have triggered a chain of events that will end in disaster.

Topeka School, in the 1990s, is about toxic masculinity and While telling the story of a privileged white community living in a city where the gun culture reigns, with a dazzling polyphony and mastery of language, it transcends the time and place it covers and turns into a searing novel that also examines the roots of the social crises we face today.

"The story of his generation." The best book so far by its most talented author... Lerner approaches himself as an archive of social knowledge that allows us to create a big picture of our time."

Giles Harvey, The New York Times Magazine

“The Topeka School is like a 21st-century Sound and the Fury: a kaleidoscopic portrait that deftly connects a family and its traumas to a broader cultural dysfunction. Lerner's novel offers a compelling exploration of how we got here and where we can go from here."

Star Tribune

"If it's possible to talk about a future right now, I think the future of the novel genre is here lies."

Sally Rooney

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Number of Pages: 248

Size: 13.5 x 21

First Printing Year: 2021

Print Number: 1st Edition

Language :Turkish