Passenger Seat
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- ISBN 9781913512712
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 29 May 2025
- Publisher: Peninsula Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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A mesmerising and unsettling novel from a powerful new voice
Seeking release from their small-town existence, two teenagers drive north on a vaguely plotted road trip.
Adam and Teddy hope to leave boyhood behind. But they carry with them all the upsets and resentments they have accrued in their unhappy lives to date.
As the pair's journey progresses, the mood fluctuates as each of them sets out to prove himself. The dynamics of their friendship begin to unravel, culminating in an act of devastating - and all too familiar - violence.
In taut and stylish prose, The Passenger Seat examines how men learn and perform masculinity. Rejecting easy answers, it keeps our eyes trained on the vanishing point where vulnerability edges into violence, alienation into aggression.
VIJAY KHURANA is a writer and translator from German. In 2022 he was shortlisted for The Novel Prize, and his fiction has been published in the Guardian, 3:AM, and NOON. The Passenger Seat is his first book.
