Satin Island

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Cover Art for 9780099546993, Satin Island by Tom McCarthy
ISBN: 9780099546993
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 10 March, 2016
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker prize Shortlisted for the 2015 Goldsmiths Prize * *âe~A horrifyingly comic novel of ideas with its fingers jammed into the light-socket of the ageâe(tm) Guardian âe~A Kafka for the Google Ageâe(tm) 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.

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