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C

Tom McCarthy

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#1549 of 8,085 books · #256 in Historical Fiction

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize (2010) and the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction (2011).

C was shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize. Opening in England at the turn of the twentieth century, C is the story of a boy named Serge Carrefax, whose father spends his time experimenting with wireless communication while running a school for deaf children. Serge grows up amid the noise and silence with his brilliant but troubled older sister, Sophie: an intense sibling relationship that stays with him as he heads off into an equally troubled larger world. After a fling with a nurse at a Bohemian spa, Serge serves in World War I as a radio operator for reconnaissance planes. When his plane is shot down, Serge is taken to a German prison camp, from which he escapes. Back in London, he's recruited for a mission to Cairo on behalf of the shadowy Empire Wireless Chain. All of which eventually carries Serge to a fitful—and perhaps fateful—climax at the bottom of an Egyptian tomb.

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Publisher
Jonathan Cape
ISBN-13
9780307594457
Topics
Technology and communicationWar and its aftermathSibling relationships and grief

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