Satin Island

spends his days procrastinating, meandering through endless buffer-zones of information and becoming obsessed by the images with which the world bombards him on a daily basis: oil spills, African traffic jams, roller-blade processions.

U. is a ''corporate anthropologist'' who, while working on a giant, epoch-defining project no one really understands, is also tasked with writing the Great Report on our society. But instead, U. spends his days procrastinating, meandering through endless buffer-zones of information and becoming obsessed by the images with which the world bombards him on a daily basis: oil spills, African traffic jams, roller-blade processions.

Is there a secret logic holding all these images together? Once cracked, will it unlock the master-meaning of our era? Might it have something to do with the dead parachutists in the news? Perhaps; perhaps not.

• | Author: Tom McCarthy
• | Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• | Publication Date: Mar 24, 2016
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780099546993
• | ISBN-10: 009954699X