Paradise Theme Park

 Recommended by 2017 Booker Prize winners Thomas Pynchon, Khaled Husseini and Margaret Atwood)

 George Sanders, the author of Lincoln in the Middle Yin, is a collection of short stories and novellas;

 Six groups of life clips that make people laugh in despair;

 The best black humor writers after Joseph Heller and Kurt Vonnegut

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[Introduction]

The six stories in Paradise Theme Park show the life fragments of a group of ordinary people who are experiencing the test of life: these people who are incompatible with the world around them may be ugly, inarticulate, or even ignored like roadside garbage, and they may be trapped in a quarrel, poverty, unhappy real life, or in a down and out fantasy of success and greatness, But at the same time, their hearts are filled with compassion and goodwill, so that the courage of desperate for others burst out at the critical moment is so huge.

As the evaluation of the "Dukai Literature Award" said, the six novels "explore the human self under ordinary or extraordinary pressure in a dark and interesting way". Saunders created a world of strange characters in a black fantasy, and they struggled together in the whirlpool stirred by the capital machine to resist this chaotic era.

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[Recommended by celebrities and media]

George Sanders wrote a wilderness story with his powerful imagination. He is very humorous and shows great sympathy. Paradise Theme Park is such a unique existence.

——Liz Johnson, The Independent, "Book of the Year"

The imaginative and vivid details, convincing narrative rhythm, skilled writing skills and image metaphor in Paradise Theme Park all show that this is a mature black humor work... Sanders' writing continues the humorous and satirical style of Pynchon, Kurt Vonnegut and Carl Hiyasen, and at the same time, it is highly personal.

——Literary Review

Reading this book makes me very happy... As a satirist, Sanders' works integrate the sense of humor of Beckett and the Monty Python Theater, and he brings us into a surreal and strange near future that is connected with the reality we are in... The Tiantang Theme Park has Sanders' consistent sharp and black humor style.

——Sunday Telegraph

Sanders has been nominated by The New Yorker as one of the 20 best American novelists under the age of 40. He pays attention to the real life he sees with an unreserved serious attitude. He is good at describing people who are out of tune with each other in life. They may be ugly, inarticulate, or even ignored like garbage... But what is surprising is that, The prospects he set for these characters were not entirely bleak; Sanders' writing may be dark indeed, but he still keeps the characters in his works with a kind of human persistence and unremitting pursuit of a small goal. It is precisely in this way that we can see a glimmer of hope, rather than a complete failure.

——The Times