Vintage Uk Satin Island

 

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Vintage Uk
Online sinds
28 mei 2018
EAN
9780099546993

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Paperback edition of the original novel which was shortlisted for both the Man Booker Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize. Follows the strange, disparate life of U., a 'corporate anthropologist'. 'A horrifying comic novel of ideas' }Guardian

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.

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Artikelnummer
2010302
Online sinds
28 mei 2018
EAN
9780099546993

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