This novel's arrival deserves a trumpeting fanfare... curiously brilliant, intricately entertaining... <b>banker plus struggling novelist equals page turner</b>

Sunday Independent

<i>The Mark and the Void</i> is <b>so sensationally good</b>...it takes the global financial crisis by its throat, and shakes it into giving birth to a <b>wild, intelligent, angry, witty, uproariously funny, devastating</b> novel

- Neel Mukherjee,

People always tell me <b>'If you love Paul Murray so much, why don't you marry him?'</b> Now thanks to recent legislation in his native Ireland, I finally can. And so should you, reader. <i>The Mark and the Void</i> not only monetizes the death of the novel, but makes us believe in its resurrection. Praise the Lord for Paul Murray's big brain and tender heart

- Gary Shteyngart,

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<i>The Mark and the Void</i> is just as funny [as <i>Skippy Dies</i>] , though perhaps with an even deeper sense of alienation at its heart

Independent

<b>Effervescent prose</b>... [It] takes on the crackle of a thriller [and] wears its anger over the global financial crisis with a <b>beguilingly, deceptively light touch</b>

Metro

Paul Murray has done the impossible: he's written a novel about international finance that is <b>a hilarious page-turner with a beating human heart</b>

- Adam Wilson, author of 'Flatscreen',

<i>The Mark and the Void</i> is Murray's best book yet - a <b>wildly ambitious, state-of-the-nation novel</b>, and a<b> scabrously funny yet deeply humane</b> satire on the continuing fall-out of the biggest financial crisis in 75 years. Think <i>Bonfire of the Vanities</i> with a heart

The Bookseller

WINNER OF THE EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE 2016A comic masterpiece about love, art, greed and the banking crisis, from the author of Skippy DiesWhat links the Investment Bank of Torabundo, www.myhotswaitress.com (yes, hots with an s, don't ask), an art heist, a novel called For the Love of a Clown, a four-year-old boy named after TV detective Remington Steele, a lonely French banker, a tiny Pacific island, and a pest control business run by an ex-KGB man? You guessed it . . . The Mark and the Void is Paul Murray's madcap new novel of institutional folly, following the success of his wildly original breakout hit, Skippy Dies. While marooned at his banking job in the bewilderingly damp and insular realm known as Ireland, Claude Martingale is approached by a down-on-his-luck author, Paul, looking for his next great subject. Claude finds that his life gets steadily more exciting under Paul's fictionalizing influence; he even falls in love with a beautiful waitress. But Paul's plan is not what it seems-and neither is Claude's employer, the Bank of Torabundo, which inflates through dodgy takeovers and derivatives-trading until-well, you can probably guess how that shakes out.The Mark and the Void is a stirring examination of the deceptions carried out in the names of art, love and commerce - and is also probably the funniest novel ever written about a financial crisis.
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While marooned at his banking job in the bewilderingly damp and insular realm known as Ireland, Claude Martingale is approached by a down-on-his-luck author, Paul, looking for his next great subject. Claude finds that his life gets steadily more exciting under Paul's fictionalizing influence; he even falls in love with a beautiful waitress.
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Idea for a novel- we have a banker rob his own bank . . .

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780241953860
Publisert
2016
Utgiver
Vendor
Penguin Books Ltd
Vekt
334 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
130 mm
Dybde
30 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
480

Forfatter

Om bidragsyterne

Paul Murray was born in Dublin in 1975 and is the author of An Evening of Long Goodbyes, Skippy Dies, The Mark and the Void and The Bee Sting. An Evening of Long Goodbyes was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award and nominated for the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. Skippy Dies was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and longlisted for the Booker Prize. The Mark and the Void won the Everyman Wodehouse Prize. The Bee Sting won the Nero Book of the Year Award and the An Post Irish Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Writers’ Prize for Fiction and the Kirkus Prize for Fiction. Paul Murray lives in Dublin.