MCCARTHY TOM

ΑΠΟΜΕΙΝΑΡΙΑ
Κάτι έπεσε από τον ουρανό, τον χτύπησε και τον βύθισε σε κώμα. Όταν ξύπνησε ήταν πλουσιότερος κατά οκτώμισι εκατομμύρια λίρες. Αυτοί που τον αποζημίωσαν τον υποχρέωσαν να κρατήσει μυστικές τις συνθήκες του ατυχήματος. Απελπιστικά αποξενωμένος από τον κόσμο γύρω του, ο ήρωας στα "Απομεινάρια", ξοδεύει με μανία τον χρόνο του και τα χρήματα της αποζημίωσης για να αναπαραστήσει σκηνές που θυμάται αμυδρά από το παρελθόν... Κόκκινα κρεμμύδια, ο ήχος ενός πιάνου, η μυρωδιά φαγητού που τηγανίζεται, τεμπέλικες γάτες που σουλατσάρουν στη στέγη... Α...
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ΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΙ ΣΤΟ ΔΙΑΣΤΗΜΑ
Κανείς δεν ξέρει ποιος ακριβώς παρήγγειλε την αντιγραφή της βυζαντινής εικόνας που έχει κλαπεί από ένα μοναστήρι της Βουλγαρίας, ούτε γιατί η Ιντερπόλ ενδιαφέρεται τόσο γι' αυτήν. (. . .) Η εικόνα ζωγραφισμένη σύμφωνα με έναν άγνωστο κανόνα αναπαριστά την ανάληψη στους ουρανούς ενός παράξενου αγίου με ελλειπτικό φωτοστέφανο, πάνω από ένα τοπίο με καράβια, σπίτια, ανθρώπους που αιωρούνται. Και η επιγραφή της κρύβει ένα μήνυμα απροσδιόριστα ελληνικό. Το βράδυ της Πρωτοχρονιάς του '93, όταν η Τσεχοσλοβακία πανηγυρίζει για τη διάσπασή της, δυο...
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(P/B) REMAINDER
Traumatized by an accident which 'involved something falling from the sky' and leaves him eight and a half million pounds richer but hopelessly estranged from the world around him, Remainder's hero spends his time and money obsessively reconstructing and re-enacting vaguely remembered scenes and situations from his past: a large building with piano music in the distance, the familiar smells and sounds of liver frying and spluttering, lethargic cats lounging on roofs until they tumble off them... But when this fails to quench his thirst for...
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(H/B) MAPPING IT OUT
Over 130 of the world's most creative minds make sense of our exterior and interior worlds through intriguing and imaginative maps of their own devising. Imaginative, visionary and richly absorbing, this book will appeal to anyone interested in how we visualize our worlds, physical or abstract, real or imagined. Whether they chart a newly discovered land or lay out a complicated process, maps serve to improve our understanding of what surrounds us. They make the complex simple, and reveal the complexity behind the apparently straightforwar...
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(P/B) SATIN ISLAND
U. is a 'corporate anthropologist' who, while working on a giant, epoch-defining project no one really understands, is also tasked with writing the Great Report on our society. But instead, U. spends his days procrastinating, meandering through endless buffer-zones of information and becoming obsessed by the images with which the world bombards him on a daily basis: oil spills, African traffic jams, roller-blade processions. Is there a secret logic holding all these images together? Once cracked, will it unlock the master-meaning of our er...
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(P/B) SATIN ISLAND
Meet U. - a talented and uneasy figure currently pimping his skills to an elite consultancy in contemporary London. His employers advise everyone from big businesses to governments, and, to this end, expect their 'corporate anthropologist' to help decode and manipulate the world around them -all the more so now that a giant, epoch-defining project is in the offing. Instead, U. spends his days procrastinating, meandering through endless buffer-zones of information and becoming obsessed by the images with which the world bombards him on a da...
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(P/B) TINTIN AND THE SECRET OF LITERATURE
Herge's Tintin cartoon adventures have been translated into more than fifty languages and read by tens of millions of children aged, as their publishers like to say, 'from 7 to 77'. Arguing that their characters are as strong and their plots as complex as any dreamt up by the great novelists, Tom McCarthy asks a simple question: is Tintin literature? McCarthy takes a cue from Tintin himself, who spends much of his time tracking down illicit radio signals, entering crypts and decoding puzzles and suggests that we too need to 'tune in' and d...
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