The Making of Incarnation: FROM THE TWICE BOOKER SHORLISTED AUTHOR
Tom McCarthy
The most ambition and exciting novel yet from the Booker shortlisted author of C and Satin Island.
Bodies in motion. Birds, bees and bobsleighs. What is the force that moves the sun and other stars? Where's our fucking airplane? What's inside Box 808, and why does everybody want it?
Deep within the archives of time-and-motion pioneer Lillian Gilbreth lies a secret. Gilbreth helped birth the era of mass observation and big data but did she also discover a 'perfect' movement that would 'change everything'?
An international hunt begins for the one box missing from her records, and we follow contemporary motion-capture consultant Mark Phocan across geo-political fault lines and experimental zones in his search for it. And all the while, work is underway on the blockbuster film Incarnation, an epic space tragedy...
'Dazzling... The Making of Incarnation feels utterly original, utterly new, utterly magical' Neel Mukherjee, author of The Lives of Others
'Hugely interesting, energetic, wise and well written' GQ
'A rich and fascinating exercise in observation' Independent
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Neel Mukherjee
A typically ambitious mille-feuille of modernity, symbolism and myth.
Katy Guest
Guardian
One of the most brilliantly intellectual novelists of the moment... The Making of Incarnation is like a ghostwritten hybrid of a John le Carré thriller, the post-modern philosophy of Jacques Derrida and a sci-fi romp all at the same time... There is something uplifting about McCarthy's work. He makes you think, and he makes you think things you hadn't thought before.
Stuart Kelly
Scotland on Sunday
Hugely interesting, energetic, wise and well written.
Sam Leith
GQ
Difficulty is...part of the pleasure of reading McCarthy... The Making of Incarnation is a novel of motion rather than emotion; imagine an even chillier JG Ballard... a rich and fascinating exercise in observation
Charles Arrowsmith
Independent
A Kafka for the Google Age.
Daily Telegraph - Praise for 'Satin Island'