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  • Published: 26 March 2015
  • ISBN: 9781448192328
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 672

I Am Radar




A kaleidoscopic, epic novel about a lovestruck radio operator who discovers a secret society…

A kaleidoscopic, epic novel about a lovestruck radio operator who discovers a secret society…

In 1975, a black child is mysteriously born to white parents.

His name is Radar Radmanovic.

Radar grows up in suburban New Jersey, but his story rapidly becomes entangled with terrible events in Yugoslavia, Norway, Cambodia, the Congo, and beyond. Falling in with a secretive group of puppeteers and scientists who stage experimental performances in war zones around the world, he is soon forced to confront the true nature of his identity.

  • Published: 26 March 2015
  • ISBN: 9781448192328
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 672

About the author

Reif Larsen

Reif Larsen is the author of The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet which was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and has now been made into a film by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the director of Amélie.

He studied at Brown University and has taught at Columbia University. His essays and fiction have appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, Tin House, The Millions and The Believer. He lives in Scotland.

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Praise for I Am Radar

Big, beautiful, ambitious… His prose is addictive and enchanting

Los Angeles Times

Chameleonic, ambitious, epic, fantastical, whimsical, thought-provoking, arcane, philosophical, exhaustive, and completely bonkers — these are just some of the words that could be used to describe I Am Radar… Unquestionably one of the more adventurous entries into the literary landscape

Boston Globe

One of our most highly anticipated novels of the year

Time Out New York

I am Radar provides oldfangled delights. Larsen can describe humanity at its worst…but his lightness of touch and enjoyably complex characters keep you hoping for the best

James Kidd, Literary Review

Larsen has wit, intelligence, empathy and imagination. What he turns his clear gifts to next promises to be fascinating

Stuart Kelly, Scotland on Sunday

Inventive and surreal

Financial Times

I Am Radar is as easy to enjoy for its swaggering tragicomic spirit as it is to admire for its celestial ambition

New York Times Book Review

Larsen has wit, intelligence, empathy and imagination

Scotland on Sunday

Balances exciting stories with celebrations about the powers of electricity and political art.

Randy Boyagoda, Guardian

Gripping ... masterly ... Larsen is an effortless magician, and his performance here is a pure delight

Publishers Weekly