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While marooned at his banking job in the bewilderingly damp and insular realm known as Ireland, Claude Martingale is approached by a down-on-his-luck author, Paul, looking for his next great subject. Claude finds that his life gets steadily more exciting under Paul's fictionalizing influence; he even falls in love with a beautiful waitress. But Paul's plan is not what it seems-and neither is Claude's employer, the Bank of Torabundo, which inflates through dodgy takeovers and derivatives-trading until-well, you can probably guess how that shakes out.

The Mark and the Void is Paul Murray's madcap new novel of institutional folly, following the success of his wildly original breakout hit, Skippy Dies. 

'Impossibly ingenious, unabashedly intelligent, read-the-whole-page-again funny and engaged with the great questions of our times. This is the answer to the question of what a seriously talented contemporary novelist should be writing.'  Observer.

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ISBN/EAN 9780241953860
Author Paul Murray
Publisher Penguin
Publication date 4 Feb 2016
Format Paperback
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The Mark and the Void

The Mark and the Void is a stirring examination of the deceptions carried out in the names of art, love and commerce - and is also probably the funniest novel ever written about a financial crisis.

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