C

The author of 'one of the great English novels of the past ten years' moves to the next level, with a novel of thrilling action, imagination and ambition which was shortlisted for the 2010 Booker prize. C follows the short, intense life of Serge Carrefax, a man who - as his name suggests - surges into the electric modernity of the early twentieth century, transfixed by the technologies that will obliterate him. Reminiscent of Bolaño, Beckett and Pynchon, this is a remarkable novel - a compelling, ...