Echoing the revenge films of the Seventies, "Unfun" is a grotesquely hilarious story about the developers of the online slasher game Deathbox. Slaktus, a violent, psychopathic bodybuilder, recruits a team of designers from Rapefruit studio in Oslo to produce the game, which is based on his failed screenplay, Mbo - Avenging Congo. Along with Lucy, his anarchist ex-girlfriend and their nihilist twin sons, the team meticulously renders the streets of Paris into digital form, where Mbo, a disaffected young road worker, goes on a killing spree with his stonecutter. As the work progresses, it becomes clear that the game has a fault. Slaktus, restless and unsettled, suffers a breakdown and attacks Lucy, who after years of exposure to his aggression coolly sets about taking her revenge on the entire crew. Dealing with oppression, freedom and power, "Unfun" is at once disturbing and highly entertaining, introducing Faldbakken as a daring new voice in contemporary fiction.
- ISBN10 1846552664
- ISBN13 9781846552663
- Publish Date 1 January 2099
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 12 January 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint Harvill Secker
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 288
- Language English