John Mandel, author of Station Eleven Nick Harkaway’s most ambitious novel yet. It is deeply troubling, magnificently strange, and an exhilarating read. The staggering consequences of what she finds will reverberate throughout the world. FebruA behemoth of a book, Gnomon is almost seven hundred tightly-packed pages, but its complex content is what makes it a difficult read. A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR Gnomon is an extraordinary novel, and one I can’t stop thinking about some weeks after I read it. To be fair to the author, some of that is by intent - if a major theme of your text is information overload, then it makes some sense to overload the reader with a bunch of indecipherable-and irrelevant-information. Embedded in the memories of these impossible lives lies a code which Neith must decipher to find out what Hunter is hiding. The trouble, of course, is that it's actually about 560 pages long. Gnomon is actually a novel that defies description for all the right reasons, it is an epic, an ultimately rewarding read with so many layers inside the layers under the levels that hide the realities that your head will spin and you’ll come out of it feeling dazed and probably weirdly wired.

Immersing herself in neural recordings of the interrogation, what she finds isn't Hunter but rather a panorama of characters within Hunter's psyche. This can leave you feeling, if not overwhelmed, driven to know what happens next to these characters and. Mielikki Neith, a trusted state inspector, is assigned to find out what went wrong. Gnomon is a gripping book, with stories within stories that all intersect with each other. When suspected dissident Diana Hunter dies in custody, it marks the first time a citizen has been killed during an interrogation. ' Daily Mail 'Wonderfully good.' Sunday Times Near-future Britain is a state in which citizens are constantly observed and democracy has reached a pinnacle of 'transparency.' Every action is seen, every word is recorded and the System has access to thoughts and memories. An amazing and quite unforgettable piece of fiction.' Guardian ' Harkaway dazzles. story of near-future mass surveillance, artificial intelligence and human identity. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven 'Nick Harkaway’s most ambitious novel yet.

It is deeply troubling, magnificently strange, and an exhilarating read.' Emily St.

A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR ' Gnomon is an extraordinary novel, and one I can’t stop thinking about some weeks after I read it.

Gnomon by Nick Harkaway