Entitlement

The exhilarating new novel from the author of Leave the World Behind – ‘the book of an era’ (Independent)‘These characters, their money, and their morality come together in an absolutely devastating thunderclap’ KILEY REID, bestselling author of Come and Get ItMoney talks. But what if it lies?An ambitious young Black woman, plotting her way into the world of the one percent.An old white billionaire, facing his own extinction.He’s attracted to her intelligence, her refusal to be deferential, maybe also her Blackness.She’s drawn to his power and money – and his apparent willingness to share both with her.But how far is each prepared to go to get what they think they deserve?Taut, unsettling, and alive to the seductive distortions of money, Entitlement is a biting tale for our new gilded age.*A GUARDIAN HIGHLIGHT FOR 2024*Praise for Leave the World Behind‘Alam is a worthy descendant of Don DeLillo’ SUNDAY TIMES‘A book that could have been tailor-made for our times’ THE TIMES‘Intense, incisive, I loved this’ DAVID NICHOLLS‘I was hooked from the opening pages’ CLARE MACKINTOSH

These characters, their money, and their morality come together in an absolutely devastating thunderclap, ‘Should come with an undertow warning…I was pulled under. Rumaan Alam has mastered that eerie moment when an ordinary gesture has the potential for disaster’, ‘Held me spellbound from its evocative opening to its startling, audacious last pages’, ‘Reading Entitlement felt like having a vise slowly tightened around my heart … Elegant, precise and devastating’, PRAISE FOR RUMAAN ALAMA writer of scrupulous precision, These characters, their money, and their morality come together in an absolutely devastating thunderclap, ‘Should come with an undertow warning…I was pulled under. Rumaan Alam has mastered that eerie moment when an ordinary gesture has the potential for disaster’, ‘Held me spellbound from its evocative opening to its startling, audacious last pages’, ‘Reading Entitlement felt like having a vise slowly tightened around my heart … Elegant, precise and devastating’, PRAISE FOR RUMAAN ALAM A writer of scrupulous precision

Rumaan Alam is the critically acclaimed and bestselling author of the novels Rich and Pretty, That Kind of Mother and Leave the World Behind, which was an international bestseller, a finalist for the National Book Award and the Orwell Prize, and adapted for a major motion picture in 2023 starring Julia Roberts, Ethan Hawke and Mahershala Ali. Alam’s writing has appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, New Yorker, New York Review of Books, Bookforum and New Republic, where he is a contributing editor. He studied writing at Oberlin College and lives in New York with his family.