{"title":"Tom McCarthy","description":"\u003cp\u003eTom McCarthy’s work invites readers into richly woven narratives that blur the boundaries between reality and artifice. His novels, such as \u003cem\u003eLa Caixa Collection: Empty House of the Stare\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Threshold and the Ledger\u003c\/em\u003e, explore complex themes through a blend of literary fiction and elements of crime and thriller, offering a cerebral reading experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith an eye for detail and an inventive approach to storytelling, McCarthy’s books often delve into the intersections of culture, memory, and identity. 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Each of the four 'chapters' is curated by a contemporary writer, who also contributes a brand new work of fiction in response to their selection. Each display is accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalogue featuring the works displayed and the new text.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe third chapter, on display in Autumn 2019, is selected by Tom McCarthy (b. 1969, UK; lives in London and Berlin), a writer whose novels include \u003cem\u003eSatin Island\u003c\/em\u003e (2015), which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, \u003cem\u003eC\u003c\/em\u003e (2010) and \u003cem\u003eRemainder\u003c\/em\u003e (2005). He is also the author of a collection of essays \u003cem\u003eTypewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish\u003c\/em\u003e (2017). 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Can writing be understood as an experience of the threshold, a limit- or boundary- state? A condition of ecstasy or ec-stasis, standing outside of oneself? With identity ruptured and surpassed, how - and by whom - might such experience be recorded?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAppearing on the eve of Bachmann's centenary year, McCarthy's book argues for the centrality of her vision to the very act of literature itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIngeborg Bachmann (25 June 1926 - 17 October 1973) was an Austrian poet and author. She is regarded as one of the major voices of German-language literature in the 20th century. 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Set in the complex landscape of international law, this story is one of intrigue and unexpected alliances.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Stanton is a decorated Gulf War veteran and star jurist in Europe's highest court. But when he meets the enigmatic Pirotti at a conference in the Swiss Alps, his allegiance begins to shift.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSoon Stanton finds himself passing out court documents to Pirotti's colleagues—or just passing out. The court starts to detect leaks in security but suspects anyone other than its favoured legal theorist. Indeed, it is Stanton who is asked to draft a new, landmark ruling, more important and far-reaching than anything he has written before.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut Stanton has been working on something else: a vast, sprawling document that has the power to change the world which he and those around him have so carefully constructed. To destroy it, certainly, but maybe, from that very act of ruination, to usher in a bright new beginning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Rhyl Poster\u003c\/em\u003e crafts a hallucinatory landscape where guilt—our own, and our whole era's—is endlessly replayable, but never quite expungeable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A novel of tremendous intelligence and poetry' — Chloe Aridjis\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'The most visionary of contemporary writers' — Neel Mukherjee\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Unfolds with the velocity of a thriller... 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