{"product_id":"ben-eastham-the-floating-world","title":"Ben Eastham | The Floating World","description":"\u003cp\u003e9781804272619\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e08\/10\/26\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePB\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e276 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn a remote island in the Aegean, a billionaire named Morel is building a refuge for the super-rich from the chaos consuming the outside world. When a struggling journalist is hired to work on the spectacular exhibition that will inaugurate this exclusive new utopia, he jumps at the chance to restart a career that stopped with the death of his wife. Yet he comes to suspect that beneath the dazzling surface of this collaboration between art and power run currents of real violence. As the inauguration of the Floating World approaches, he finds it more difficult to distinguish dream from reality. Who is excluded from this paradise? On what traumas is it being constructed, and are they poised to return? And can art redeem us from the death of our loved ones and the end of the world? \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA dystopia, satire and Bildungsroman, steeped in ancient mythology and contemporary politics, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Floating World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a deeply moving, often hilarious and beautifully written debut novel that heralds an exciting new voice in contemporary fiction.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‘Startlingly imaginative, \u003cem\u003eThe Floating World\u003c\/em\u003e is at times like the work of a J. G. Ballard for the 2020s, at others like the reincarnation of Italo Calvino. Eastham is as deft with a finely observed comic riff as he is with a heart-stoppingly lovely description of a city, a gesture, a connection. In his hands, what could have been a satire of art-world hubris becomes something so attuned to the world – its wonder and its clear and present danger… I don’t want to sound mawkish, but ultimately it’s a novel about our boundless potential to connect, and what we should ultimately value.’\u003cbr\u003e— Luke Kennard, author of\u003cem\u003e Black Bag\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fitzcarraldo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58176415334782,"sku":"9781804272619","price":14.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0983\/7608\/files\/2_a65b81d6-9992-4435-a1d0-dc59852e8087.webp?v=1791463071","url":"https:\/\/www.leftfordeadshop.co.uk\/products\/ben-eastham-the-floating-world","provider":"Left For Dead","version":"1.0","type":"link"}