The first novel written by Booker finalist Tom McCarthy -- acclaimed author of Remainder and C -- Men in Space is set in a Central Europe rapidly fragmenting after the fall of communism. It follows an oddball cast -- dissolute bohemians, political refugees, a football referee, a disorientated police agent, and a stranded astronaut -- as they chase a stolen painting from Sofia to Prague and onward. Planting the themes that McCarthy's later works develop, here McCarthy questions the meaning of all kinds of space -- physical, political, emotional, and metaphysical -- as reflected in the characters' various disconnections. What emerges is a vision of humanity adrift in history, and a world in a state of disintegration.

With an afterword by Simon Critchley, author of The Book of Dead Philosophers

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• Publication Date: February 7, 2012
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