Universality (First Edition)

Brown, Natasha

ISBN 10: 0593977300 / ISBN 13: 9780593977309

Published by Random House, New York, 2025

About this Item

Random House, New York, 2025. First U.S. edition (stated). First printing, with full number line to 1. Fine in a fine jacket. Full black paper-covered boards; spine lettered in gilt. A tight, clean copy with publisher?s original price ($24.00) intact on front jacket flap. 8vo, 152 pp. plus back matter. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. Brown?s second work of fiction, after her novel "Assembly." "Universality" was longlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Universality (First Edition)
• Publisher: Random House, New York
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0593977300
• ISBN 13: 9780593977309
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

About this title

Synopsis

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • “A bold and memorable achievement.”—The Booker Prize 2025 judges

Remember—words are your weapons, they’re your tools, your currency: a twisty, slippery descent into the rhetoric of power, hailed as “a nesting doll of satire that leaves readers uncertain where their loyalties lie” (Financial Times)

“Original, vital, and unputdownable.”—Tess Gunty, National Book Award–winning author of The Rabbit Hutch

AN NPR AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

Late one night on a Yorkshire farm, in the midst of an illegal rave, a young man is nearly bludgeoned to death with a solid gold bar.

An ambitious young journalist sets out to uncover the truth surrounding the attack, connecting the dots between an amoral banker landlord, an iconoclastic newspaper columnist, and a radical anarchist movement that has taken up residence on the farm. She solves the mystery, but her viral exposé raises more questions than it answers. Through a voyeuristic lens, and with a simmering power, Universality focuses on words: what we say, how we say it, and what we really mean.

A thrilling novel from one of the most acclaimed young novelists working today, Universality is a compelling, unsettling celebration of the spectacular, appalling force of language. It dares you to look away.

About the Author

Natasha Brown was named one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists. Her debut novel, Assembly, was shortlisted for the Folio Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize, and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction.