Tom McCarthy\u2019s C is a 2010 novel of ideas that addresses a wide array of scientific, historical, and cultural topics. Like McCarthy\u2019s five other novels, it tells a complex and multi-layered story intertwined with disquisitions on art, memory, trauma, science, technology, and other mid-expanding topics. It\u2019s written in a style that calls attention to its methods, surprising you recurrently with its perceptive and beautiful language.