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The Floating World

Ben Eastham

A bitingly funny and deeply moving debut novel about late capitalism, climate change and the artworld in the vein of Ben Lerner and Tom McCarthy.
A rewriting of Adolfo Bioy Casares’ cult novel The Invention of Morel, set in Greece in the near-future, where a billionaire is building a private retreat for the rich after the climate apocalypse.
The first book by a founding editor of The White Review and the current editor of e-flux criticism with a huge international network of sympathetic writers, artists and cultural institutions.
Comps: 10:04 by Ben Lerner, Satin Island by Tom McCarthy, Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad, Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton.

Ben Eastham

Ben Eastham is editor-in-chief of e-flux Criticism and a widely published writer on contemporary art. The editor of books on Luis Camnitzer, Arshile Gorky, Fabio Mauri and Stephen Spender, he has worked as curator and editor on international exhibitions including the Shanghai Biennale, Documenta and Seoul Mediacity Biennale, and is on the advisory panel of EVA International. Now based in London, he lived for several years in Athens and Rome, was previously an editor at ArtReview and a founding editor of The White Review, and began his career at the BBC reporting on mass media and propaganda. His previous book, The Imaginary Museum (TLS Books, 2020), is about how works of art reconstruct our experience of the world.