Hot on the back of the acquisition of the US rights to his Tintin and the Secret of Literature by Soft Skull Press, Tom McCarthy’s new novel Men in Space is out in September. You can read an excerpt over at the main 3:AM site but here’s publisher Alma’s blurb:
“Set in a Central Europe rapidly fragmenting after the fall of Communism, Men in Space follows a cast of dissolute Bohemians, political refugees, a football referee, a disorientated police agent and a stranded astronaut as they chase a stolen icon painting from Sofia to Prague and onwards. The icon’s melancholy orbit is reflected in the various characters’ ellipses and near misses as they career vertiginously through all kinds of space: physical, political, emotional and metaphysical. What emerges is a vision of humanity adrift in history, and a world in a state of disintegration.”
First posted: Sunday, July 8th, 2007.
