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Maxwell's Demon - Steven Hall
Steven Hall (b. 1975, Derbyshire) published his first novel, The Raw Shark Texts, in 2007: the story of a man hunted by a shark made of words, it became an international bestseller, won the Somerset Maugham Award, and landed its author on Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists list. Then, for fourteen years, nothing. Maxwell’s Demon (2021) is his second novel. It is, among many other things, a book about why certain things take fourteen years.
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