Mr Mee

Andrew Crumey

Elderly Scottish bookworm Mr Mee searches the Internet for a legendary encyclopaedia outlining an 18th century quantum theory. Instead he enters a strange new world of cyber-hoaxers and online pornography. Meanwhile a university lecturer describes research on Jean-Jacques Rousseau and an infatuation with one of his own students. And in the third strand of this unique comedy of ideas, set in the spring of 1761, Rousseau's neighbours hold the key to the writer's madness, the lost encyclopaedia, and Mr Mee himself.

Combining history and fantasy, philosophy and farce, Crumey's novel is an intellectual page-turner that keeps the reader laughing and guessing to the end.

Winner of the SAC Book Award.

This book is fabulous stuff: erudite but not patronising, elegantly and simply written, jumping ambitiously across centuries but with a good dash of down-to-earth lust for entertainment. More than once, Crumey makes his reader pause, rest the book in his - The Times

Publishers:

UK - Macmillan
US - St Martin's Press
Germany - Dumont Verlag
Netherlands - Atlas
Italy - Ponte alle Grazie
Spain - Ediciones Siruela SA
Portugal - Temas e Debates
Greece - Polis
Russia - Toymania
Japan - Tokyo Sogen Sha
Turkey - Pegasus/Kuraldisi

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