'Brilliantly funny ... the best satire of our contemporary nightmare that you will ever see, and very possibly the last' Alan Moore It's 2019 and America is ruled over by a billionaire reality TV star. Its media is owned by a transnational class of the shameless and the depraved. And its people have been silently robbed of their wealth, their dignity and their democracy. In this brave new world, going to see a superhero movie counts as activism, and arguing with the other serfs on social media is political engagement. BUT EVERYTHING'S FINE - as long as you never, ever ask yourself who makes money from the ticket sales and the ratings, or who owns Twitter. It's 2019 and Jarett Kobek has done the only thing a dissident American novelist can do in those circumstances: he's joined the party and written fantasy novel about an immortal fairy queen and a shadowy billionaire philanthropist sheikh called Dennis. Hilarious, provocative and unmissable, Only Americans Burn in Hell is the only novel for our certifiably insane times.

A despairingly hilarious satire of the modern world, from #MeToo to Trump, by the bestselling author of I Hate the Internet

About the Author
Jarett Kobek is a Turkish-American writer living in California. His novella ATTA, a psychedelic biography of the 9/11 bomber Mohamed Atta, was an unexplained bestseller in parts of Canada. His first novel, I Hate the Internet, was a bestseller everywhere, doing especially well in Serbia. His second novel, The Future Won't Be Long, wasn't a bestseller anywhere, but was published in the United States by a company that printed propaganda for Nazi Germany. So there's always hope.

Reviews
As radical as Samuel Richardson or Laurence Sterne ... Kobek makes you laugh and think at the same time -- STEWART LEE
A smoking hot and hilarious dissection of why the world is in such a mess right now -- DORTHE NORS
The only contemporary American novelist who matters -- MATTHEW SPECKTOR
The most important and hilarious faerie story ever written -- IVY POCHODA
Inspired ... the energy and invention are irresistible. It's hard to disagree that mad times require a mad novel -- Richard Preston * Times *
A real tour de force * Daily Mail *
On top form, Kobek is like a great stand-up comic, bringing to his writing a manic rush of urgency, intensity and actual danger * Herald *
Kurt Vonnegut meets Stewart Lee meets a Twitter-thread wormhole. Jarett Kobek's writing is hilarious and punchy, repeatedly drawing in the reader with running jokes and one-liners before delivering mighty slaps to the face with some hard-hitting truths - reminders that, while we may laugh, all is not well ... Despite its genre-defying boldness, engagement with injustices and commentary on power systems, Only Americans Burn in Hell is without pretension and condescension. Kobek doesn't hold back in this hilarious and vicious criticism of all we take for granted. You shouldn't hold back from reading it * The Skinny *
Kobek is a genius, masquerading as a slob. From Batman fanboys to Instagram to Literary Death Match to sex - the honesty, accuracy and comic genius on display, stops the reader dead. * Bookmunch *
Kobek is as wildly unconventional, ruthlessly confrontational and brilliantly funny as he ever was * The Big Issue *
One part absolute tripe and three parts absolute genius, which is a better ratio than most books * The Crack *
The boundlessness of Kobek's discontent is somehow captivating. And he isn't courting any particular constituency or coterie, which alone is a precious quality in the online age -- Louis Amis * Spectator *
Only Americans Burn in Hell is a smoking hot and hilarious dissection of why the world is in such a mess right now. While you watch Jarett Kobek pour gasoline on everything - international politics, Internet culture, the book business, American presidents, Christianity, capitalism, the fantasy genre - you will be so mesmerized and laugh so much that your faith in humanity will be restored by the time he lights the match. Jarett Kobek is one of our most groundbreaking writers. -- DORTHE NORS
Jarett Kobek's books are an attempt to explode what the novel could still be, as radical as Samuel Richardson or Lawrence Stern's attempts to define what it was in the first place. Only Americans Burn in Hell is a fantasy work about mythic Amazons time-travelling to modern America of the type currently clogging multiplexes - but one infected by anxieties about sexual politics, the ethics of the digital world and the horrorshow of the Trump administration. Kobek makes you laugh and think at the same time, engaging both the head and the gut. -- STEWART LEE
Ingenious ... with all the bullshit paranormal characters that a superhero-habituated modern audience requires, Jarett Kobek clearly and calmly explains our genocidally idiotic mess of a culture as it plunges enthusiastically into a genuine, non-fictional damnation that Batman isn't going to rescue it from. Brilliantly funny and sociologically terrifying, Only Americans Burn in Hell is the best satire of our contemporary nightmare that you will ever see, and very possibly the last. Read it while you're still neurologically capable -- ALAN MOORE
There's a chance that when the dust settles on the cultural and political insanity of the early 21st Century, only one writer will remain relevant: Jarett Kobek. With scathing wit, shocking insight and brutal honesty Kobek demolishes social media and the publishing industry, introduces us to a Saudi Prince hopped up on DMT, and conjures perhaps the most important and hilarious faerie story ever written. -- IVY POCHODA
Jarett Kobek's energy, intellect, wit, sensibility, erudition, tenderness, and - yes - obnoxiousness add up to something wholly original, and absolutely necessary ... he may be the only contemporary American novelist who matters. -- MATTHEW SPECKTOR
Kobek's genius is to hector you about the shady workings of money and power while making you laugh on every page * METRO *
A blackly hilarious, relentlessly satirical anti-novel * Times Literary Supplement *



Book Information
ISBN 9781788162203
Author Jarett Kobek
Format Hardback
Page Count 304
Imprint Serpent's Tail
Publisher Profile Books Ltd
Weight(grams) 444g
Dimensions(mm) 222mm * 144mm * 29mm