Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize
A New York Magazine Best Book of the Year
In Satin Island, Tom McCarthy--the acclaimed, Man Booker
Prize-nominated author of Remainder and C--captures the way we
experience our world and our efforts to find meaning in the narratives
we think of as our lives. U., a "corporate anthropologist," is tasked
with preparing the Great Report, an all-encompassing ethnographic
document that sums up our era. Yet at every turn, he feels himself
overwhelmed by the ubiquity of data. But just as U. begins to wonder if
his project will ever take shape, his senses are startled awake by a
dream of an apocalyptic cityscape. Unlike anything you've read before,
Satin Island is a mind-bending adventure from one of the most original
voices in literature today.