by Scarlett Thomas · Canongate Books Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781847670700
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«The End of Mr. Y» is a science fiction and fantasy novel by Scarlett Thomas, in paperback, published by Canongate Books (512 pages, in English).
Ariel Manto, fascinated by nineteenth-century scientists and by Thomas Lumas, finds in a second-hand bookstore a copy of his rarest and most cursed work. Reading it sweeps her into an adventure combining science, faith, consciousness and death, with time travel and a parallel universe.
The novel was nominated for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2008. Its original edition was published in 2006.
For readers of literary fiction, mystery and science fiction with a taste for stories about books and time travel.
Scarlett Thomas is an English author who writes contemporary postmodern fiction. She has published ten novels, including The End of Mr. Y and PopCo, as well as the Worldquake series of children's books, and Monkeys With Typewriters, a book on how to unlock the power of storytelling. She is Professor of Creative Writing & Contemporary Fiction at the University of Kent.
