Weight of Numbers

Klappentext "The Weight of Numbers" is a big, ambitious novel that posits a world where everything is connected but, post-faith, post-fate, all that is left to guide us is numbers. "Dazzling, admirable narrative nerve ... Ings stalks his targets with the relentlessness of a bounty hunter, until he arrives at a new heart of darkness.... As the story cuts through time its lineage emerges: from the colonial excursions of Conrad and Celine to the anthropological objectivity of J. G. Ballard; to Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon; to the askance mix of fact and fiction in DeLillo.... It is unlikely there will be a finer-written fiction this year." -- Chris Pettit Zusammenfassung "The Weight of Numbers" is a big! ambitious novel that posits a world where everything is connected but! post-faith! post-fate! all that is left to guide us is numbers.

Product details

• Authors: Simon Ings
• Publisher: Atlantic monthly press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.03.2007
• EAN: 9780802170309
• ISBN: 978-0-8021-7030-9
• No. of pages: 432
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Political, Mozambique, Fiction: general & literary, c 1960 to c 1969, Relating to specific and significant cultural interests, CULTURAL HERITAGE / African