Tom McCarthy’s intense life of a man steeped in the electric modernity of the early 20th century, transfixed by technologies that will obliterate him
Tom McCarthy’s strange and elusive vision of a Kafkaesque world in contemporary London, where a company man begins to think for himself…
U is employed as a corporate anthropologist. The company expect him to help decode and manipulate the world around them. But U has other ideas. As he meanders through an endless bombardment of information and images - African traffic jams, roller-blade processions, zombie parades - U begins to wonder. Is there, perhaps, a secret logic holding all this stuff together - a codex that, once cracked, will unlock the master-meaning of our age?
Tom McCarthy
About the Author
Tom McCarthy's work has been translated into more than 20 languages and adapted for cinema, theatre and radio.Other nominated books by Tom McCarthy