C - Rilegato

“Remarkable not for its austerity but for its unlikely, panoramic ambition . . . C is a bird so rare as to seem oxymoronic: an avant-garde epic, the first I can think of since Ulysses.”
—Jonathan Dee, Harper’s Magazine
 
 “Unquestionably brilliant . . . This is a genuinely exciting and spookily beautiful book, a new kind of joy.”
—The Times (London)
 
“A supercharged, fizzingly written Bildungsroman . . . the remix the novel has been crying out for.” —Sunday Times
 
“Beautiful . . . a thrilling tale. This is one of the most brilliant books to have hit the shelves this year, and McCarthy deserves high praise for an electric piece of writing which should be read and enjoyed as much as dissected and discussed.”—Sunday Telegraph
 
“A dizzying, mesmeric and beautifully written work . . . Tom McCarthy has written a novel for our times: refreshingly different, intellectually acute and strikingly enjoyable . . . it seems highly unlikely that anyone will publish a better novel this year.”—Daily Telegraph
 
“Each chapter of McCarthy’s tour de force is a cryptic, ornate puzzle box, rich with correspondences and emphatically detailed digressions. Ambitious readers will be eager to revisit this endlessly interpretive world, while more casual readers will marvel at the high-flying picaresque perched at the crossroads of science and the stuff dreams are made of.”
—Publishers Weekly (Starred, boxed review)
 
“A literary roller-coaster ride that virtually hums and crackles . . . A marvelously inventive novel, swept along by the sheer energy of its prose.”
—Booklist
 
“C is for carbon and cocaine, Cairo and CQ, and many other things besides. Under the elegant curve of the letter lies a fantastically detailed landscape of tiny pen-strokes that, if seen from high enough above, coalesce into a face, laughing uproariously. Tom McCarthy’s latest is terrifically stylish, acrobatic, and insidious.”
—Luc Sante