{"title":"Tom McCarthy","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"c-by","title":"C by Tom McCarthy","description":"\u003ch5\u003e(NOTE: The Book cover may vary if published by different companies.)\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAuthor:  \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/booksvilla.com.pk\/collections\/tom-mccarthy\"\u003eTom McCarthy\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eBinding: SOFTBACK\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eCategory: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/booksvilla.com.pk\/collections\/historical-fiction#\"\u003eHISTORICAL FICTION\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003ePublisher: LOCAL\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003ePages: 347\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the book:\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eThe acclaimed author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eRemainder,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewhich Zadie Smith hailed as “one of the great English novels of the past ten years,”gives us his most spectacularly inventive novel yet.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOpening in England at the turn of the twentieth century, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eC\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the story of a boy named Serge Carrefax, whose father spends his time experimenting with wireless communication while running a school for deaf children. Serge grows up amid the noise and silence with his brilliant but troubled older sister, Sophie: an intense sibling relationship that stays with him as he heads off into an equally troubled larger world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAfter a fling with a nurse at a Bohemian spa, Serge serves in World War I as a radio operator for reconnaissance planes. When his plane is shot down, Serge is taken to a German prison camp, from which he escapes. Back in London, he’s recruited for a mission to Cairo on behalf of the shadowy Empire Wireless Chain. All of which eventually carries Serge to a fitful — and perhaps fateful — climax at the bottom of an Egyptian tomb ...\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e","brand":"Tom McCarthy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44988142616758,"sku":null,"price":870.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/1794\/2710\/files\/7465814.jpg?v=1773930766"},{"product_id":"satin-island","title":"Satin Island","description":"\u003ch5\u003e(NOTE: The Book cover may vary if published by different companies.)\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAuthor:  \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/booksvilla.com.pk\/collections\/tom-mccarthy\"\u003eTom McCarthy\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eBinding: SOFTBACK\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eCategory: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/booksvilla.com.pk\/collections\/fiction\"\u003eFICTION\u003c\/a\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/booksvilla.com.pk\/collections\/english\"\u003eENGLISH\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003ePublisher: LOCAL\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003ePages: 144\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the book:\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e \u003cspan\u003eFrom the author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eRemainder\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (the major feature-film adaption of which will be released in 2015) and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eC\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (short-listed for the Booker Prize), and winner of the Windham Campbell Prize, a novel that promises to give us the first and last word on the world--modern, postmodern, whatever world you think you are living in.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen we first meet U., our narrator, he is waiting out a delay in the Turin airport. Clicking through corridors of trivia on his laptop he stumbles on information about the Shroud of Turin--and is struck by the degree to which our access to the truth is always mediated by a set of veils or screens, with any world built on those truths inherently unstable. A \"corporate ethnographer,\" U. is tasked with writing the \"Great Report,\" an ell-encompassing document that would sum up our era. Yet at every turn, he feels himself overwhelmed by the ubiquity of data, lost in buffer zones, wandering through crowds of apparitions. Madison, the woman he is seeing, is increasingly elusive, much like the particulars in the case of the recent parachutist's death with which U. is obsessed. Add to that his longstanding obsession with South Pacific cargo cults and his developing, inexplicable interest in oil spills. As he begins to wonder if the Great Report might remain a shapeless, oozing plasma, his senses are startled awake by a dream of an apocalyptic cityscape. In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSatin Island,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Tom McCarthy captures--as only he can-- the way we experience our world, our efforts to find meaning (or just to stay awake) and discern the narratives we think of as our lives.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e","brand":"Tom McCarthy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45003552325814,"sku":null,"price":530.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/1794\/2710\/files\/22543699.jpg?v=1774409436"}],"url":"https:\/\/booksvilla.com.pk\/collections\/tom-mccarthy-1.oembed","provider":"Booksvilla.pk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}