Tom McCarthy

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• Satin Island

  Written in English

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  Booker 2015 · Shortlist

  Satin Island

  Satin Island

  Tom McCarthy · 46 when first published

  Novel · 192 pages

  AIAI-generated summary:U., an anthropologist employed by a consultancy, is meant to write a Great Report that sums up the age, but he drifts instead through dossiers, data and the images the world throws at him.

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  Written in English

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  Booker 2010 · Shortlist

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  Tom McCarthy · 41 when first published

  Novel · 310 pages · Historical, War

  AIAI-generated summary:Serge Carrefax is born into a world of transmissions: his father runs a school for deaf children and experiments with wireless, and Serge grows up beside his brilliant, troubled older sister Sophie in the years before the First World War.