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Satin Island

Tom McCarthy

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For thinkers lost in modern information overload

This is the kind of novel that feels strange, clever, and eerily familiar all at once. If you like books that turn corporate life, media noise, and modern anxiety into something darkly funny and intellectually electric, this really lands. It reads like drifting through the internet with a brilliant, obsessive mind, searching for meaning that may never fully appear.

  • Booker Prize Nominee (2015)
  • Goldsmiths Prize Nominee (2015)
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Satin Island

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Condition guide
ISBN: 9780099546993
Author: Tom McCarthy
Publisher: Vintage
Date of Publication: 2016-04-26
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Contemporary
Related Topics: Philosophy, Literature, Dystopia
Goodreads rating: 3.24
(rated by 5888 readers)

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Shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize; Shortlisted for the 2015 Goldsmiths Prize; "A horrifyingly comic novel of ideas with its fingers jammed into the light-socket of the age" — Guardian; "A Kafka for the Google Age" — Daily Telegraph. 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.
 

For thinkers lost in modern information overload

This is the kind of novel that feels strange, clever, and eerily familiar all at once. If you like books that turn corporate life, media noise, and modern anxiety into something darkly funny and intellectually electric, this really lands. It reads like drifting through the internet with a brilliant, obsessive mind, searching for meaning that may never fully appear.

  • Booker Prize Nominee (2015)
  • Goldsmiths Prize Nominee (2015)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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