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Satin Island
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- Book Synopsis
- U. is a 'corporate anthropologist' who, while working on a giant, epoch-defining project no one really understands, is also tasked with writing the Great Report on our society. But instead, U. spends his days procrastinating, meandering through endless buffer-zones of information and becoming obsessed by the images with which the world bombards him on a daily basis: oil spills, African traffic jams, roller-blade processions. Is there a secret logic holding all these images together? Once cracked, will it unlock the master-meaning of our era? Might it have something to do with the dead parachutists in the news? Perhaps; perhaps not.
- About The Author
- Tom McCarthy's work has been translated into more than twenty languages and adapted for cinema, theatre and radio. His third novel, C, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Walter Scott Prize and the Europese Literatuurprijs and his fourth, Satin Island, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize. In 2013 he was awarded the inaugural Windham-Campbell Literature Prize. McCarthy is also author of the study Tintin and the Secret of Literature and the essay collection Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish. He lives in Berlin.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780099546993
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Vintage, (24 March 2016)
- Number of Pages
- 222
- Weight
- 169 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 197 x 129 x 15 mm
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