A novel for our times, from the Booker-shortlisted 'master craftsman who is steering the contemporary novel towards exciting new territories' (Observer).
Tom McCarthy is the author of Tintin and the Secret of Literature and three internationally celebrated novels- Remainder, Men in Space and, most recently, C, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In 2013 he was awarded the inaugural Windham-Campbell Literature Prize by Yale University. His creation, in 1999, of the International Necronautical Society has led to installations and exhibitions in galleries and museums around the world, from Tate Britain and the ICA in London to The Drawing Center in New York.
Smart, shimmering and thought-provoking…McCarthy isn’t a frustrated
cultural theorist who must content himself with writing novels;
he’s a born novelist, a pretty fantastic one, who has figured out a
way to make cultural theory funny, scary and suspenseful — in other
words, compulsively readable.
*New York Times*
Should you read the new Tom McCarthy book? (A: Yes. Always
yes.)
*Huffington Post*
Dazzling and elusive… a magisterial ethnographic portrait of our
overstimulated, interconnected, simulacra-addicted times.
*Atlantic*
The kind of strange and ambitious fiction that you feared might
have died with J. G. Ballard. ...Provokes and beguiles and, at the
point of revelation, it withholds. On finishing it you will have
the powerful urge to throw it across the room, then the powerful
urge to pick it up to read again. And that’s what’s so
brilliant.
*Daily Telegraph*
Confusing, clever and about to be massive.
*Stylist*
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