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The very first book compiled by Booker finalist Ben McCarthy—acclaimed writer of C—Men and Rest in Room is placed in a Main Europe quickly fragmenting following the fall of communism. It uses a soccer umpire, political refugees, an oddball cast—dissolute bohemians, a confused authorities broker, and a stuck astronaut—as they pursue a stolen artwork from Sofia to Prague and forward. Growing the styles that McCarthy’s later works create, below McCarthy concerns this is of types of space—physical, political, psychological, and metaphysical—as mirrored within the characters’ numerous disconnections. What emerges is just a vision of mankind adrift ever, and a global in a situation of disintegration.With an afterword by Simon Critchley, writer of The Book of Dead Philosophers