ABOUT
THE BOOK

Politics tells the story of a father and daughter. It also tells the story of a ménage à trois.
Politics explores crucial domestic problems of sexual etiquette. What should the sleeping arrangements be in a ménage à trois? Is it polite to read while two people have sex beside you? Is it permissible to be jealous? If you have eczema, should you complain that undinism can be painful?
Politics is a comedy about kindness. And at the same time, it is also about Milan Kundera, blow jobs, Chairman Mao’s personal hygiene, Václav Havel, half-Jewishness, Bollywood, shopping, Hitler’s sexual fetish, selfishness, Osip Mandelstam, premature ejaculation, the late Queen Mother, thrush, Stalin on the phone, politeness, Antonio Gramsci’s theory of hegemony, and pink fluffy handcuffs.