The dazzling new novel by the Man Booker-nominated, Granta Best of Young British novelist, Ned Beauman.
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The dazzling new novel by the Man Booker-nominated, Granta Best of Young British novelist, Ned Beauman.
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In 1938, two rival expeditions set off for a lost Mayan temple in the jungles of Honduras, one intending to shoot a screwball comedy on location there, the other intending to disassemble it and ship it back to New York. A seemingly endless stalemate ensues, and twenty years later, when a rogue CIA agent learns that both expeditions are still out in the wilderness, he embarks on a mission to exploit the temple as a geopolitical pawn. But the mission hurtles towards disaster when he discovers that the temple is the locus of grander conspiracies than anyone could have guessed.
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“Dazzlingly inventive - The Times on GLOWBlisteringly funny, witty and erudite - Daily Telegraph on GLOWA writer of prodigious talent - Financial Times on GLOWSingular and almost recklessly gifted - Time on GLOW”
Dazzlingly inventive - The Times on GLOW
Blisteringly funny, witty and erudite - Daily Telegraph on GLOWA writer of prodigious talent - Financial Times on GLOWSingular and almost recklessly gifted - Time on GLOWAbout the Author
NED BEAUMAN was born in 1985 in London. His debut novel, Boxer, Beetle, won the Writers' Guild Award for Best Fiction Book and the Goldberg Prize for Outstanding Debut Fiction. His second novel, The Teleportation Accident, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Encore Award and a Somerset Maugham Award. His third novel, Glow, was published in 2014. He has been chosen by the Culture Show as one of the twelve best new British novelists and by Granta as one of the 20 best British novelists under 40. His work has been translated into more than ten languages.
In 1938, two rival expeditions set off for a lost Mayan temple in the jungles of Honduras, one intending to shoot a screwball comedy on location there, the other intending to disassemble it and ship it back to New York. A seemingly endless stalemate ensues, and twenty years later, when a rogue CIA agent learns that both expeditions are still out in the wilderness, he embarks on a mission to exploit the temple as a geopolitical pawn. But the mission hurtles towards disaster when he discovers that the temple is the locus of grander conspiracies than anyone could have guessed.
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