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C (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for CSerge Carrefax spends his childhood at Versoie House, where his father teaches deaf children to speak when he's not experimenting with wireless telegraphy. Sophie, Serge's sister and only connection to the world at large, takes outrageous liberties with Serge's young body--which may explain the unusual sexual predilections that haunt him for the rest of his life.
Full description- Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
- Published: 07 September 2010
- Format: Hardback 320 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Sagas | Historical Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780307593337 ISBN 10: 0307593339
- Sales rank: 137,123
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Full description for C
"C" has been shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize. The acclaimed author of "Remainder, "which Zadie Smith hailed as "one of the great English novels of the past ten years,"gives us his most spectacularly inventive novel yet. Opening in England at the turn of the twentieth century, "C" 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. After 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 . . . Only a writer like Tom McCarthy could pull off a story with this effortless historical breadth, psychological insight, and postmodern originality.
