A=-A is a beautiful, dark and surreal story, about a man called Alpha whose world is quite literally turned upside down for a day. And if we stop craving certainty - and entertain doubt - what new possibilities become available to us?

'Gloriously odd, deeply moving .

If you loved BBC4's Hemingway, rediscover this poignant story of the inability to capture lost youth, by the Nobel Prize-winning author of A Farewell to Arms.

Richard Cantrell is an American colonel living in Venice just after the Second World War.

THE AUTHORATITIVE TEXT

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. Napoleon and Snowball form an elite and take control for themselves, and the tyranny of the farmer is replaced with another kind of control leaving the animals again subject to a ruthless and cruel authority.

WITH A FOREWORD BY DAVID LODGE

When inspiration leads Theodore Gumbril to design a type of pneumatic trouser cushion to ease the discomfort of sedentary life, he decides the time has come to give up teaching and seek his fortune in the metropolis.