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The Weight of Numbers

โœ Scribed by Simon Ings

Publisher
Atlantic Books Ltd
Year
2011
Tongue
English
Weight
246 KB
Category
Fiction
City
New York
ISBN
0857896466

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โœฆ Synopsis

Winner of the O2 X Award

**'Dynamic' -- Daily Telegraph **
**'Dazzling' -- Guardian **
**'Ambitious and virtuoso' --Financial Times **
**'Unforgettable' --The Times **
'Ingenious... shimmering' -- New Statesman

On July 21, 1969 two astronauts set foot on the moon; far below, in ravaged Mozambique, a young revolutionary - hailed as the saviour of his country - is murdered by a package bomb.

From these two unconnected events, Simon Ings weaves a great and glittering web that entangles four lives: Anthony Burden, a mathematical genius destroyed by the beauty of numbers; Saul Cogan, transformed from prankster idealist to trafficker in the poor and dispossessed; and Stacey Chavez, ex-teenage celebrity and mediocre performance artist, hungry for fame and starved of love. All are haunted by Nick Jinks, a man who sows disaster wherever he treads.

As the twentieth...

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