Meatspace
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Meatspace
By (Author) Nikesh Shukla
HarperCollins Publishers
The Friday Project Limited
22nd June 2015
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
823.92
Physical Properties
Paperback
320
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 21mm
190g
Description
The second novel from Costa First Novel Award shortlisted author Nikesh Shukla.
Kitab Balasubramanyams life is falling apart around him. First he lost his girlfriend, then his job. The novel he put his all into didnt sell and hes not written anything beyond 140 characters for since. Hes pushing away his widowed father, unable to listen to tales of his dads online dating successes, and now his brother Aziz is leaving their shared flat to travel to America in search of his Facebook doppelganger.
Despite the relentless buzz of notifications on his phone, Kitab is alone. But when his only known namesake turns up in London from Bangalore, intent on being part of Kitabs life, at whatever cost, Kitab is forced to fight for the identity he thought he was so tired of.
Reviews
Like Douglas Couplands Generation X, this novel captures
a cultural moment
Guardian
An anarchic, self-involved and admirably honest portrait of
a bookish life lived in the brave new digital world
New Statesman
Chilling
Observer
Buzzing with streetwise smarts and satirical barbs, its a
thoughtful, often hilarious, meditation on a young writers
loneliness in the digital age
Independent on Sunday
Brilliant stuff
Londonist
Hilarious and disturbing
Stylist
Meatspace is funny. Damn funny. You
should really switch off your computer and read it
Matt Haig, author of The Humans
Meatspace is the greatest book on loneliness since The Catcher in the Rye
Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story
Totally original and funny and humane
Sathnam Sanghera, author of The Boy with The Topknot
Meatspace is, simply, one of the finest novels I have ever read
about modern life and modern living. Douglas
Coupland, Junot Diaz, Chuck Palahniuk and Jennifer Egan:
stick them in a blendr, and out comes this amazing new novel
by one of the UKs most distinct voices
James Smythe, author of The Machine
Very funny and Id recommend it to anyone
Rick Edwards in the Metro
Author Bio
Nikesh Shukla is a writer of fiction and television and host of the Subaltern podcast. His debut novel, Coconut Unlimited was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2010 and longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2011. Meatspace is his second novel.
