Same Same: A Novel
Written by Peter Mendelsund
Narrated by Euan Morton
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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.
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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