Sam Thompson was born in London in 1978, and studied at Trinity College, Dublin. He writes for the Times Literary Supplement and the London Review of Books. He lives in Oxford with his wife and son.
The Man Booker-longlisted novel explores how each of us conjures up our own city.
Every city is made of stories: stories that meet and diverge, stories of the commonplace and the strange, of love and crime, of ghosts and monsters.
The iridescent, Man Booker longlisted Communion Town is reminiscent of David Mitchell's Ghostwritten and Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, it is the story of a place that never looks the same way twice: a place imagined anew by each citizen who walks through the changing streets among voices half-heard, signs half-glimpsed and desires half-acknowledged.
This is the story of a city.
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