In 2007, Joshua Ferris made a name for himself with the novel “And Then There Were None,” which Stephen King compared to Joseph Heller’s “Catch-22.”
In “The Nameless” novel, Ferris’s talent revealed itself from a completely different angle. A sad philosopher who can find depth in ordinary things—this is how the author of the novel presents himself, a book critics called the best of the past decade.
The main character, the successful lawyer Tim Farnsworth, had an ordinary life: he climbed the career ladder, enjoyed small family joys—yet this idyll was shattered by a strange and terrifying unnamed illness.
Tim is doomed, but life on the edge of the abyss, at the very threshold of eternity, opens his eyes to much.