Tom McCarthy

Robin Hood

Whit Stiles

Farrar Cusomato

Lauren Hood

A Century of Impact

National Parks Conservation Association

Tintin and the Secret of Literature

Remanescente

An epochal saga from the acclaimed author of Remainder, C takes place in the early years of the twentieth century and ranges from western England to Europe to North Africa. Serge Carrefax spends his childhood at Versoie House, where his father teaches deaf children to speak when he's not experimenting with wireless telegraphy. Sophie, Serge's sister and only connection to the world at large, takes outrageous liberties with Serge's young body — which may explain the unusual sexual predilections that haunt him for the rest of his life. After recuperating from a mysterious illness at a Bohemian spa, Serge serves in World War I as a radio operator. C culminates in a bizarre scene in an Egyptian catacomb where all Serge's paths and relationships at last converge. Tom McCarthy's mesmerizing, often hilarious accomplishment effortlessly blends the generational breadth of Ian McEwan with the postmodern wit of Thomas Pynchon and marks a writer rapidly becoming one of the most significant and original voices of his generation.

Tom McCarthy’nin C ile Perec, Calvino ve Joyce’un meşalesini devraldığı düşünülüyor. Serge Carrefax hem gürültünün hem sessizliğin sarmaladığı bir dünyaya açıyor gözlerini. Babası kablosuz iletişim üstüne deneyler yapıyor. Sağır olan annesi aile işi olan ipek üretimini sürdürüyor. Serge ve ablası Sophie de telgraf cihazları ve böcekler arasında büyüyor. Serge’le birlikte biz de Versoie’deki huzurlu yaşamından gözlemci pilot olarak katıldığı Birinci Dünya Savaşı’na, savaş sonrası Londrası’ndan sahte mezar odalarıyla dolu Mısır’a uzanan bir serüvenin içinde buluyoruz kendimizi. McCarthy’nin tanımlamasıyla Serge: “Ulysses’teki Bloom gibi, dünyayı sünger gibi emip süzüyor: âdeta bir prizma. Gravity’s Rainbow’daki Slothrop gibi. Tristram Shandy gibi. Candide gibi. Etraflarında ne varsa yankılayan seslendirme kutuları onlar.” 2010 Man Booker Ödülü’ne aday gösterilen C İngiliz yazar Tom McCarthy’nin üçüncü romanı. McCarthy (1969) Londra’da yaşıyor. Remainder, Men in Space ve Satin Island romanlarının yanında Tintin and the Secret of Literature adlı bir inceleme kitabı bulunuyor. Notos Edebiyat-Roman #NotosKitap #NotosEdebiyatDizisi

The newspaper advertisement for volunteers to accompany Ernest Shackleton on his planned traverse of Antarctica in 1914 was frank in its offering. “Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success.” Still, hundreds applied. There were few chances left to be the first to reach the last challenge on Earth. As the 20th Century came of age, explorers had uncovered most of the world’s mysteries, sailing to the far corners of the globe, ascending many of its most forbidding peaks, crossing its greatest deserts and penetrating its thickest jungles. Frozen, alien, inhospitable, dangerous, and close to impossible to reach, there were only two tiny dots on the globe that human beings had not yet set foot on—the North and South Poles. The Greatest Polar Exploration Stories Ever Told is a visceral, exciting and stunning collection of twelve stories recounting the bravery, resoluteness, and strength of the men who willingly traversed frozen hells to be the first to reach the North or South Pole. It is a collection that will both inspire and inform—and answer questions about the limits of human endurance. Many men would die during their challenging, frozen journeys, and their deaths were not pleasant. Yet they continued to try again. Here are stories, wrought by the challenging landscape and weather, that made these explorers household names and heroes: Peary, Scott, Amundsen, Shackleton, Franklin, Cherry-Garrard, Scott, Kane, Cook—and others lost to history whose bravery was nonetheless as admirable. Each of these men knew success would bring glory for their countries and financial security and fame and eminent places in history for themselves. Each knew also the odds of success were slim and the chance of dying great. Nations held their collective breaths for news of each expedition and those years later were termed the Heroic Age of Exploration—there were simply no other endeavors that captured the world’s attention the various races to the poles. The Greatest Polar Exploration Stories Ever Told recaptures the spirit, drama, and tragedy of a time in history that will never come again.

The Greatest Polar Exploration Stories Ever Told

"Opening in England at the turn of the twentieth century, C is the story of a boy named Serge Carrefax, whose father spends his time experimenting with wireless communication while running a school for deaf children. Serge grows up amid the noise and silence with his brilliant but troubled older sister, Sophie: an intense sibling relationship that stays with him as he heads off into an equally troubled larger world. After a fling with a nurse at a Bohemian spa, Serge serves in World War I as a radio operator for reconnaissance planes. When his plane is shot down, Serge is taken to a German prison camp, from which he escapes. Back in London, he's recruited for a mission to Cairo on behalf of the shadowy Empire Wireless Chain. All of which eventually carries Serge to a fitful, and perhaps fateful, climax at the bottom of an Egyptian tomb ..."--Jacket.

The orders to proceed were nothing more than an invitation to die, and usually in unpleasant ways. But the soldiers proceeded nonetheless, because a higher cause was at stake. This stunning collection of stories is a tribute to the courage, steely resolve, and discipline of men who accomplished daunting missions in the face of almost certain death. Nonetheless, they stepped into the breach and performed heroically. That was their duty and they did not question. They had a mission and they accepted. Here are ten powerful stories of American soldiers and sailors that span more than 200 years of action with one common theme, summed up succinctly a participant who took control of Omaha Beach on D-Day, 1944. “We were doing the very thing that we had trained so long to do, and we were fascinated, and eagerly excited about it. We realized that any number of things might happen to us and knew too that some things we’d never dreamed of might very well be waiting for us on the beach.”’ From Marines taking Iwo Jima’s Mount Suribachi or defending Khe San, Navy pilots taking to the air to defend Pearl Harbor, or an outnumbered American regiment in Korea defeating the Chinese at the Battle of Chipyong-ni, courage was the common watchword, death the common consequence. Such is the lot of soldiers everywhere. Here is a not-so-gentle reminder of the price of freedom--paid by American men for more than 200 years of struggle, from the Revolutionary War, the Spanish-American War, Civil War, World War II, Korea, and Viet Nam.

The Greatest Military Mission Stories Ever Told

Saten Ada gece kulüpleri, petrol sızıntıları, paraşüt kazaları, kanser, protesto gösterileri gibi ilgisiz görünse de tarihi saran şeffaf bir ağla birbirine bağlanan, çok sayıda verinin yüküyle ağırlaşmış dünyanın âdeta on dört bölümlük bir dökümü. S. ile Torino Havalimanı’nda tanışacaksınız. Torino Kefeni’nden yola çıkıp dünyanın farklı coğrafyalarında yaşanan, birbirinden bağımsız görünen olaylara tanıklık edecek, bunları “şimdi”de değerlendirip Büyük Rapor’da toplamaya çalışan bir antropoloğun gözünden göreceksiniz. Türkçede C ve Kalan romanlarıyla, Tenten ve Edebiyatın Gizemi adlı inceleme kitabıyla tanınan Tom McCarthy’nin Perec, Calvino ve Joyce’un meşalesini devraldığı düşünülüyor. Son romanı Saten Ada aynı zamanda bir inceleme, makale, rapor, bir manifesto ve itiraf. İngilizceden çeviren Esra Birkan Notos Edebiyat-Roman #NotosKitap #NotosEdebiyatDizisi

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