'Great Apes'

Will Self

Painter Simon Dykes wakes up from a drunken stupor to find his world is run by chimpanzees. His girlfriend is a chimp, and Simon himself is growing hairier by the moment. He’s treated by a psychiatric team of chimps for his delusion that he’s human, and for the even more bizarre notion that humans are the evolutionarily successful primates. Distinguished psychologist/chimp Dr. Zak Busner journeys with Simon to Africa to one of the world’s remaining populations of wild humans, hoping to find answers. This brilliant, outrageous, and satirical novel is written in lush, literary prose.