First things first, stay calm.
Eric Sanderson wakes up in a place he doesn’t recognise, unable to remember who he is. All he has left are journal entries recalling Clio, a perfect love now gone. As he begins to piece his memories back together, Eric finds that he is being hunted by a creature that moves in language, that swims through the currents of human interaction.
With the help of his cynical cat Ian, Eric must search for the Ludovician, the force that is threatening his life, and Dr Trey Fidorus, the only man who knows the truth.
The Raw Shark Texts is an international bestseller that has been translated into 29 languages. The book was shortlisted for the Arthur C Clarke award and won the Borders Original Voices Award.
Press/Quotes
If Paul Auster and Haruki Murakami collaborated on Moby-Dick crossed with The Wizard of Oz, they might produce something like Hall’s deliriously ambitious debut … a narrative feat of hallucinatory imagination. - KIRKUS REVIEWS
'Paced like a thriller, the book thinks like a French theorist and reads like a deluge.' SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
'A cult in the making.' TIME OUT
'The most original reading experience of the year . . . A novel that genuinely isn't like anything you have ever read before.' INDEPENDENT
'A horror-dystopic-philosophical mash-up that has critics drawing comparisons to Borges, The Matrix and Jaws.' NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE
'The Raw Shark Texts is so much more than a clever, playful book, though it is both those things. Steven Hall has worked hard to build on the work of his intellectual ancestors. . . . Paul Auster, Philip K. Dick, Haruki Murakami, Steve Erickson, Ursula K. Le Guin — to say nothing of Beckett and Borges and Kafka.' LOS ANGELES TIMES
'A thriller that will haunt you. Pass it on to a friend. Commence debate.' GQ
Publishers
The Raw Shark Texts is published in english by Canongate Books in the UK, Grove in the US, and Harpercollins Canada.
Negatives
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