Remainder
A Novel

Zadie Smith praised this book and in her essay on 'realistic' versus whatever you want to call this sort of novel. I'm sure she is smarter than I am and she maybe knows more about literature, but I don't share her enthusiasm for this and I think that there are many better examples of books out there......more

Novela extraña donde las haya, pero también de las que perduran en la memoria tiempo después de su lectura. Mediante una prosa sencilla, Tom McCarthy aborda temas trascendentales como la imperfección de la realidad o la búsqueda de lo auténtico. La historia tiene como protagonista a un londinense que......more

Wow! Hmm. That could be my whole review. I'm glad I kept the faith while reading this book. The first part gives the impression that you're about to read a confessional weepy survivor story, and then the story veers without warning into a story that grapples in the most graphic way possible with the......more

ingiltere'nin büyük yayıncılarının defalarca reddettiği bir romanmış kalan. küçük bir yayınevi tarafından basılmış, kitapçılara bile dağıtılmamış, derken bir tanıtım yazısıyla eleştirmenlerin dikkatini çekmiş, sonra ödüller almış, yazarına şöhret kazandırmış, on dört dile çevrilmiş... bu tür başarı h......more

Finally, I finished reading Remainder by Tom McCarthy. I have been reading this 300-something page book, which I purchased based on a recommendation from McSweeney’s, for weeks. Today, I willed myself to finish it. My professors at the University of Maryland, Merrill Feitell and Maud Casey, constantl......more