Meatspace

Nikesh Shukla is a writer of fiction and television and host of the Subaltern podcast. His debut novel, Coconut Unlimited was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2010 and longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2011. Meatspace is his second novel.

‘Like Douglas Coupland’s Generation X, this novel capturesa cultural moment’– Guardian‘An anarchic, self-involved and admirably honest portrait ofa bookish life lived in the brave new digital world’– New Statesman‘Chilling’– Observer‘Buzzing with streetwise smarts and satirical barbs, it’s athoughtful, often hilarious, meditation on a young writer’sloneliness in the digital age’– Independent on Sunday‘Brilliant stuff ’– Londonist‘Hilarious and disturbing’– Stylist‘Meatspace is funny. Damn funny. Youshould really switch off your computer and read it’– Matt Haig, author of The Humans‘Meatspace is the greatest book on loneliness since The Catcher in the Rye’– Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story‘Totally original and funny and humane’– Sathnam Sanghera, author of The Boy with The Topknot‘Meatspace is, simply, one of the finest novels I have ever readabout modern life and modern living. DouglasCoupland, Junot Diaz, Chuck Palahniuk and Jennifer Egan:stick them in a blendr, and out comes this amazing new novelby one of the UK’s most distinct voices’– James Smythe, author of The Machine‘Very funny and I’d recommend it to anyone’– Rick Edwards in the Metro