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    Same Same: A Novel

    Written by Peter Mendelsund

    Narrated by Euan Morton

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    About this audiobook

    In the shifting sands of the desert, near an unnamed metropolis, there is an institute where various fellows come to undertake projects of great significance. But when our sort-of hero, Percy Frobisher, arrives, surrounded by the simulated environment of the glass-enclosed dome of the Institute, his mind goes completely blank. When he spills something on his uniform — a major faux pas — he learns about a mysterious shop where you can take something, utter the command “same same,” and receive a replica even better than the original.

    Imagining a world in which simulacra have as much value as the real — so much so that any distinction between the two vanishes, and even language seeks to reproduce meaning through ever more degraded copies of itself — Peter Mendelsund has crafted a deeply unsettling novel about what it means to exist and to create...and a future that may not be far off.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateFeb 5, 2019
    ISBN9780525639497
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    Same Same: A Novel
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    Peter Mendelsund

    Peter Mendelsund is a novelist, a graphic designer, and the creative director of The Atlantic. Mendelsund is the author of several books about literature and the visual imagination: What We See When We Read, Cover, and The Look of the Book: Jackets, Covers, and Art at the Edges of Literature. His debut novel, Same Same, was published in 2019.

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