Satin Island

From the author of Remainder and C (short-listed for the Man Booker Prize); and a winner of the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize; comesSatin Island; an unnerving novel that promises to give us the first and last word on the world—modern; postmodern; whatever world you think you are living in.U.; a "corporate anthropologist;" is tasked with writing the Great Report; an all-encompassing ethnographic document that would sum up our era. Yet at every turn; he feels himself overwhelmed by the ubiquity of data; lost in buffer zones; wandering through crowds of apparitions; willing them to coalesce into symbols that can be translated into some kind of account that makes sense. As he begins to wonder if the Great Report might remain a shapeless; oozing plasma; his senses are startled awake by a dream of an apocalyptic cityscape. In Satin Island; Tom McCarthy captures—as only he can—the way we experience our world; our efforts to find meaning (or just to stay awake) and discern the narratives we think of as our lives.From the Hardcover edition. Buy now the item at ONLY: 26.95