A review by runkefer
The Mark and the Void by Paul Murray

4.0

A comic novel of bankers and global economic collapse. Bear with me. Paul Murray's send-up of the financial markets by way of a banker in Dublin gives a "nothing behind the curtain" view of the invisible hand that pulls the levers of our modern world. Along the way it skewers modern art, the publishing industry, and the bloodless calculus of the E.U.'s handling of sovereign debt. And it's hilarious--the darkest kind of comedy that is about the truth.