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‘Extremely dark … laugh-out-loud funny’
GUARDIAN

‘The funniest book I’ve read for a long time’ DAVID NICHOLLS

‘Twistedly funny’ VINCENZO LATRONICO

‘Utterly ruthless’
NEW YORK TIMES

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION

Written with the accomplished authority of a modern classic and the manic intensity of a loser’s manifesto, Rejection radically redefines what it means to be rejected by lovers, friends, society and oneself.

We see a tryhard male feminist’s passionate allyship turn to a furious nihilism as he realises that his feminism isn’t getting him laid and a young woman’s unrequited crush spirals into borderline obsession. As these characters pop up in each other’s dating apps and social media feeds, or meet in dimly lit bars and bedrooms, they reveal the ways that our delusions can warp our desire for connection.

A Book of the Year in Wall Street Journal, New York Times, New Yorker, NPR, Time Magazine, Vanity Fair, Esquire, Electric Literature and more.

‘Blistering … takes a magnifying glass to the mind of the internet age’
VOGUE

‘An excruciating examination of modern losers in psychic distress’
THE TIMES

‘Tulathimutte is a pervert and a madman and a stone-cold genius’ CARMEN MARIA MACHADO, author of In the Dream House

‘Audacious and painful and addictive … I loved it’ RUFI THORPE, author of Margo’s Got Money Troubles

‘The funniest, darkest thing – it’s like Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground meets Instagram’ ST. VINCENT

‘You will be crawling out of your skin from the very first words’ JIA TOLENTINO, author of Trick Mirror

Publisher Review

‘Divinely appalling, almost sublimely ghastly … It is quite difficult to laugh so hard while also being goldfish-mouthed at its audacity’ The Scotsman

‘Startlingly good … The psychic torment of these characters can be as disturbing as graphic horror stories; it can also be snortingly funny’ Wall Street Journal

‘Gutting… Cleverly satirizes a heartless world’ TIME,100 Must-Read Books of the Year

‘I was entranced by his book despite its narrowness and emotional barbarity …Tulathimutte is a big talent’ Dwight Garner, New York Times Book Review

‘Perverse, profane, and profound … will make your skin crawl’ Esquire, Best Books of the Year

‘I found myself perversely heartened by his depraved genius … what I needed to read this year: bleak, funny and utterly ruthless’ Jennifer Szalai, New York Times Book Review

‘One of the funniest books I’ve read in years’ NPR

‘With the prose-dial turned up to gasp-inducing Nabokov and Amis levels… one of the boldest works in recent memory’ Karan Mahajan, Granta mag

‘Unrelentingly brutal and gut-bustingly funny and spares no one… Tulathimutte is a pervert and a madman and a stone-cold genius’ Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House

‘Tulathimutte is utterly inimitable. Rejection is fast and funny, a delirious convergence of the haptic and uncanny’ Raven Leilani, author of Luster

‘Tulathimutte’s supercharged prose and profound existential comedy reveal something true at the heart of our desperate human condition. A book of mad, madcap genius’ Garth Greenwell, author of Small Rain

‘You will be crawling out of your skin from the very first words … virtuosic’ Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror

‘Absurdity and vulgarity merge with the fearless excavation of the deadly serious … symbiotically serious and funny’ Megan Nolan, in Vogue

‘The funniest, darkest thing-like Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground meets Instagram’ St Vincent

‘Most insane, funniest book I’ve ever read’ Bowen Yang

‘A hilarious, disgusting work of genius’ Interview magazine