The Weightless World by Anthony Trevelyan
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Overview: Steven Strauss is just where he doesn’t want to be: on a ‘business trip’ to India with his boss Raymond Ess, the charismatic and chaotic founder of Resolute Aviation. Lately the company has fallen on hard times – indeed Steven and his fellow employees have accepted that Resolute is dead and they’re all going to lose their jobs. But not Raymond Ess. Ess is determined to save his beloved company, and to this end he’s devised an audacious rescue plan. He claims that during his recent travels he has come across a man, a recluse of the Indian wilds, who is willing to sell his remarkable invention: an antigravity machine. Now, with Steven in tow, Ess has returned to India planning to buy the machine, to bring it to market and thereby right all wrongs, recover all losses, restore all reputations.
Steven knows it is madness. He knows antigravity machines don’t exist. He knows also that last year Raymond Ess had a spectacular mental breakdown. However in India, Steven will find there is much that he doesn’t know. Who is this reclusive inventor, this Tarik Kundra, and does he even exist? Who is this guide who will take them to find him in the country’s most remote wilderness, Asha Jarwal? And who is this bumbling, soft-spoken elderly American, Harry Altman, and why is he suddenly everywhere Ess and Steven go?
Soon Steven realises there is no one he can trust, not even (or least of all) himself. And in a lost place on a distant plain he will come excruciatingly to understand that there is far more at stake on this trip than he ever imagined. By turns comic and melancholy, suspenseful and surreal, THE WEIGHTLESS WORLD is a journey into the strangeness of our contemporary condition. It explores the uneasy terrain arising from our covenant with, and ignorance of, emerging technologies, and charts the hazardous paths we may take when we falter in our sense of ourselves as human beings at all.
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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