Those in the Void

"This is my favorite book by Tom McCarthy. The Void is a novel of loneliness in a world gone to waste."

- Simon Critchley -

"He jumps into the second carriage and goes straight to the back. Actually, it's the worst place to be, because his pass is no longer valid, and when the plainclothes conductors arrive, they move from the back to the front of the tram. But Nick loves riding in the wake. He leans on the railing in front of the window and watches the rails appear from underneath the tram, as if the tram itself were dragging them from the ground and collecting them, and as the tram moves forward, the box on top of it twists the wires like a spider twisting them, gathering them in itself: it creates the world by passing through it."

People scattered in all directions in the immediate aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union: refugees, bohemians involved in art and the mafia, young Europeans searching for their identities, eccentric artists, cosmonauts suspended in space... All these people, wandering in their own emptiness, gather around a Byzantine icon smuggled from Sofia to Prague - knowingly or unknowingly– they begin to construct their own stories. They are all inside an ellipse that narrows when the time comes, expands when the time comes, increases, decreases and finally dissolves in void.

With its dizzying plot and narrative, The Ones in the Void, one of the best novels of recent English literature, is translated into Turkish by master translator Çiğdem Erkal…

(From the Promotion Bulletin)

Paper Type : 2. Paste

Number of Pages : 312

Dimensions : 12.8 x 19.7

Year of First Printing : 2019

Number of Printing : 1. Edition