Rochdale is a town in post-industrial Britain, but it could be anywhere on the digitalised, environmentally decimated planet: a place devoid of hope, where poverty, violence, and squalor are the near-future consequences of decisions being made at this very moment. Grime is the dazzling multi voice story of four teenagers haphazardly brought together by individual tragedy and a collective love of grime, the music genre that replaced punk as the sound of the angry and the dispossessed: martial-arts-obsessed Don(atella); Peter, a traumatised Polish boy; Karen, a tech-savvy girl with albinism; and Hannah, an orphan from Liverpool. Despite the increasingly sophisticated workings of an authoritarian surveillance state, the four set out to exact revenge on the people they hold responsible for their misery. But what starts out as a teen hit squad evolves into a makeshift family as the four kids attempt to create a home on the fringes - both physically and mentally - of society. In this stylistically innovative epic, acclaimed novelist Sibylle Berg addresses the question currently being debated around the world: where will climate change, artificial intelligence, the rise of right-wing populism, and the inexorable expansion of surveillance lead? This masterful dystopian satire is a merciless and surgically precise evisceration of neoliberalism, and beneath its rage and brutality beats a deeply human heart. Grime spent 25 weeks on European bestseller lists and won the Swiss Book Prize.

The first English translation of iconic Swiss-German novelist Sibylle Berg-a ruthless indictment of contemporary society and a strikingly creative manifesto for rebellion.

About the Author
SIBYLLE BERG is a Swiss-German author and playwright, and one of the most celebrated contemporary writers in the German-speaking world. Born in Weimar, Germany, they have written 27 plays, 15 novels, and numerous anthologies and radio plays. Their work has been translated into 34 languages. Berg is part of the Straight Edge movement and identifies as non-binary. The German-language edition of Grime won the Swiss Book Prize. In 2020, Berg received Switzerland's highest literary award, the Grand Prix Literature, for their work. They live in Zurich.


Book Information
ISBN 9781250796516
Author Sibylle Berg
Format Paperback
Page Count 448
Imprint Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S.
Publisher St Martin's Press
Weight(grams) 474g
Dimensions(mm) 232mm * 154mm * 31mm