Satin Island By Tom McCarthy (Hardback, 2015)

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This book was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2015 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 & uneasy figure currently pimping his skills to an elite consultancy in contemporary London His employers advise everyone from big businesses to governments & to this end expect their 'corporate anthropologist' to help decode & 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 & 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 & the vague brilliance & bullshit Satin Island emerges an impassioned & exquisite novel for our disjointed times