Murmur
Winner of the Wellcome Trust Book Prize
A London Guardian Best Book of the Year selection
A London Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year
Longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize
Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize
Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize
A New Scientist magazine selection of Best Books of the Year
An Australian Book Review Pick of Best Books of the Year
One of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of the Year in Fiction
Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award
A Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year
In Murmur, a hallucinatory masterwork, Will Eaves invites us into the brilliant mind of Alec Pryor, a character inspired by Alan Turing.
Turing, father of artificial intelligence and pioneer of radical new techniques to break the Nazi Enigma cipher during World War II, was later persecuted by the British state for “gross indecency with another male” and forced to undergo chemical castration.
Set during the devastating period before Turing’s suicide, Murmur evokes an extraordinary life, the beauty and sorrows of love, and the nature of consciousness.
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