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Meet U. - a 'corporate anthropologist' pimping his skills to an elite consultancy in contemporary London; an uneasy node in giant networks of global capital and intellectual exchange whose overall shape seems destined to elude him. U.'s employers have set him two tasks. First, he must assist in the launching of a great, epoch-defining project which no one, least of all its own architects, fully understands. Second, he has been asked to compose the seemingly impossible: the Great Report - an ethnographic document to sum up our age. Instead, procrastinating, meandering, drifting through endless buffer-zones of information, U. grows obsessed with the images with which the world bombards him on a daily basis: oil spills, African traffic jams, roller-blade processions, zombie parades. Is there a secret logic holding all these things together - a codex that, once cracked, will unlock the master-meaning of our times? 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, his disconnected notes from underground emerge as Satin Island, an impassioned and exquisite work for our disjointed times.

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Zařazení knihy Knihy v angličtině Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Plný název: Satin Island
• Autor: Tom McCarthy
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Pevná
• Počet stran: 192
• EAN: 9780224090193
• ISBN: 0224090194
• ID: 04541831
• Nakladatelství: Vintage Publishing
• Hmotnost: 368 g
• Rozměry: 213 × 158 × 26 mm
• Datum vydání: 12. March 2015

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