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Informationen zum Autor Tom McCarthy 's work has been translated into more than 20 languages and adapted for cinema, theatre and radio. His third novel C was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Walter Scott Prize and the European Literature Prize and his fourth, Satin Island , was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize. In 2013 he was awarded the inaugural Windham-Campbell Literature Prize by Yale University. McCarthy is also author of the study Tintin and the Secret of Literature , and of the essay collection Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish . He lives in Berlin. Klappentext The author of 'one of the great English novels of the past ten years' moves to the next level, with a novel of thrilling action, imagination and ambition which was shortlisted for the 2010 Booker prize. C follows the short, intense life of Serge Carrefax, a man who - as his name suggests - surges into the electric modernity of the early twentieth century, transfixed by the technologies that will obliterate him. Reminiscent of Bolaño, Beckett and Pynchon, this is a remarkable novel - a compelling, ... Zusammenfassung Follows the life of Serge Carrefax, a man who surges into the electric modernity of the early twentieth century, transfixed by the technologies that obliterate him. Born to the sound of one of the experimental wireless stations, Serge finds himself steeped in a weird world of transmissions.
