Men in Space

Title: Men in Space
Author: Tom McCarthy
ISBN: 9780307388223
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2012
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Updated
Number of Pages: 293
Condition Note: New from the publisher
Publisher Description: The first novel written by Booker finalist Tom McCarthy--acclaimed author of Remainder and C--Men in Space is set in a Central Europe rapidly fragmenting after the fall of communism. It follows an oddball cast--dissolute bohemians, political refugees, a football referee, a disorientated police agent, and a stranded astronaut--as they chase a stolen painting from Sofia to Prague and onward. Planting the themes that McCarthy's later works develop, here McCarthy questions the meaning of all kinds of space--physical, political, emotional, and metaphysical--as reflected in the characters' various disconnections. What emerges is a vision of humanity adrift in history, and a world in a state of disintegration.

With an afterword by Simon Critchley, author of The Book of Dead Philosophers