Ascension Day

Chris Dolan's first novel is a powerful story of a great post-industrial city and the collective imagination of its citizens - William Grant, who attempts to understand the city through mathematics; the delinquent Cannibal; Paris, dreaming on the cancer ward, and her nurse, Morag Simms. How their paths cross in this unusually real city with its sex and sadness, violence and humour is the urgent subject matter of this book, which announces Chris Dolan as an important new voice in European fiction.