by Jonathan Coe · Penguin Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140294569
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«What a Carve Up!» is Jonathan Coe's social satire novel, published by Penguin Books in paperback (512 pages, in English).
The novel portrays the Winshaws, a powerful British family that amasses money through scandalous businesses: tabloid press, hospitals turned into parking lots, art, livestock farming, stock market and arms trafficking. The narrator Michael Owen reveals the greed and corruption of that ruling class during the 1980s.
It is the first instalment of the series The Winshaw Legacy; it was originally published in 1994 and won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger.
For readers of political satire and humor, as well as for those who appreciate a critical look at the British upper class.
Jonathan Coe is an English novelist and writer. His work has an underlying preoccupation with political issues, although this serious engagement is often expressed comically in the form of satire. For example, What a Carve Up! (1994) reworks the plot of an old 1960s spoof horror film of the same name. It is set within the "carve up" of the UK's resources that was carried out by Margaret Thatcher's Conservative governments of the 1980s.
