A darkly epic novel about connection, disconnection and destruction - from the New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning, Booker Prize-longlisted author of Let the Great World Spin

'Urgent and utterly compelling ... Wild but controlled, with its deft apparatus mapping our most mysterious 21st century malaise - the great loneliness of the connected world' KEVIN BARRY
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Anthony Fennell, a journalist, is in pursuit of a story buried at the bottom of the sea: the network of tiny fibre-optic tubes that carry the world's information across the ocean floor - and what happens when they break.

So he has travelled to Cape Town to board the George Lecointe, a cable repair vessel captained by Chief of Mission John Conway. Conway is a talented engineer and fearless freediver - and Fennell is quickly captivated by this mysterious, unnerving man and his beautiful partner, Zanele.

As the boat embarks along the west coast of Africa, Fennell learns the rhythms of life at sea, and finds his place among the band of drifters who make up the crew. But as the mission falters, tensions simmer - and Conway is thrown into crisis. A terrible, violent tragedy is unfolding on the life he has left behind on land; and, trapped out at sea, it seems as if the vast expanse of the ocean is closing in.

Then Conway disappears; and Fennell must set out to find him.

As taut and propulsive as a thriller, and a timeless exploration of narrative and truth, Twist is the work of a master storyteller at the height of his powers.

A darkly epic novel about connection, disconnection and destruction - from the New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning, Booker Prize-longlisted author of Let the Great World Spin

About the Author
Colum McCann's seven novels and three collections of short stories have been published in over forty languages and received some of the world's most prestigious literary awards and honours, including the National Book Award for his novel Let the Great World Spin in 2009. His novel TransAtlantic was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2013, and his most recent novel, Apeirogon, also longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, is an international bestseller on four continents. colummccann.com

Reviews
McCann may follow Coppola upriver and Conrad to the heart of darkness but the concerns of his novel are contemporary and urgent and utterly compelling. This is an ambitious novel, note perfect, wild but controlled, with its deft apparatus mapping our most mysterious 21st century malaise - the great loneliness of the connected world -- KEVIN BARRY
Praise for Colum McCann: McCann writes with an amazing abundance of humanity -- ELIZABETH STROUT
McCann is an empathy engine * NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW *
A giant amongst us - fearless, huge-hearted, a poet with every living breathe -- PETER CAREY
An audacious and wonderfully skilled writer -- JOSEPH O'CONNOR
A great writer prepared to take risks * DAILY MAIL *
Colum McCann is a very gifted, charming writer; in full, rhapsodic-onrush mode, he is hard to resist * GUARDIAN *
McCann writes with a ferocious eloquence and a masterly sense of narrative * SPECTATOR *



Book Information
ISBN 9781526656957
Author Colum McCann
Format Paperback
Page Count 256
Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC