Satin Island
Nominiert: Man Booker Prize 2015, Nominiert: The Goldsmiths Prize 2015
(Sprache: Englisch)
Shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker prize
Shortlisted for the 2015 Goldsmiths Prize
A novel for our times, from 'a master craftsman who is steering the contemporary novel towards exciting new territories' ( Observer ).
Shortlisted for the 2015 Goldsmiths Prize
A novel for our times, from 'a master craftsman who is steering the contemporary novel towards exciting new territories' ( Observer ).
Leider schon ausverkauft
versandkostenfrei
Buch
15.49 €
Produktdetails
Produktinformationen zu „Satin Island “
Shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker prize
Shortlisted for the 2015 Goldsmiths Prize
A novel for our times, from 'a master craftsman who is steering the contemporary novel towards exciting new territories' ( Observer ).
Shortlisted for the 2015 Goldsmiths Prize
A novel for our times, from 'a master craftsman who is steering the contemporary novel towards exciting new territories' ( Observer ).
Klappentext zu „Satin Island “
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
Meet U. - a talented and uneasy figure currently pimping his skills to an elite consultancy in contemporary London. His employers advise everyone from big businesses to governments, and, to this end, expect their 'corporate anthropologist' to help decode and manipulate the world around them - all the more so now that a giant, epoch-defining project is in the offing.
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, zombie parades. Is there, U. wonders, a secret logic holding all these images together - a codex that, once cracked, will unlock the master-meaning of our age? Might it have something to do with South Pacific Cargo Cults, or the dead parachutists in the news? Perhaps; perhaps not.
As U. oscillates between the visionary and the vague, brilliance and bullshit, Satin Island emerges, an impassioned and exquisite novel for our disjointed times.
Autoren-Porträt von Tom McCarthy
Tom McCarthy, geboren 1969, lebt als Künstler, Schriftsteller und Literaturkritiker in London. Er ist Generalsekretär der International Necronautical Society und hat zahlreiche Erzählungen und Essays veröffentlicht.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Tom McCarthy
- 2015, 192 Seiten, Maße: 14,6 x 20,3 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Random House UK
- ISBN-10: 0224099345
- ISBN-13: 9780224099349
- Erscheinungsdatum: 16.09.2015
Sprache:
Englisch
Kommentar zu "Satin Island"
0 Gebrauchte Artikel zu „Satin Island“
Zustand | Preis | Porto | Zahlung | Verkäufer | Rating |
---|
Schreiben Sie einen Kommentar zu "Satin Island".
Kommentar verfassen