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We Live Here Now
  • Published: 9 September 2025
  • ISBN: 9781685892012
  • Imprint: Melville House
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $47.99

We Live Here Now

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5 Aug 2025
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9 Sept 2025
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DeLillo meets Kafka in a wickedly smart novel that explores the boundaries between art and life, vision and reality, beauty and commerce . . .

WINNER OF THE 2025 GOLDSMITHS PRIZE


A wickedly smart, Borgesian novel that explores the boundaries between art and life, vision and reality, beauty and commerce . . .


When visitors to a famous conceptual artist's installation start mysteriously disappearing, the aftershocks radiate outwards through twelve people who were involved in the project, changing all of their lives, and launching them on a crazy-quilt trajectory that will end with them all together at one final, apocalyptic bacchanal.

Mixing illusion and reality, simulacra and replicants, sound artists and death artists, performers and filmmakers and theorists and journalists, We Live Here Now ranges across the world of weapons dealers and international shipping to the galleries and studios on the cutting edge of hyper-contemporary art. It spins a dazzling web that conveys, with eerie precision, the sheer strangeness of what it is like to be alive today.
  • Published: 9 September 2025
  • ISBN: 9781685892012
  • Imprint: Melville House
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $47.99
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About the author

C. D. Rose

C. D. ROSE was born in the north of England and studied in several of that country’s elite universities, including the University of East Anglia, where he went to do an M.A. in creative writing, and Edge Hill University, where he is at work on a Ph.D. His research into great lost literary works drew him on to live and work in several different countries, including Italy, France, Russia and the United States, where he enjoyed a number of encounters with curious authorial personalities. His research interests have not abated, and now, though based in England, he continues to travel in an unending quest for that one elusive, perfect tale.
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Praise for We Live Here Now

“Rose writes with wit, playfulness, and an impressive knowledge … an author to reckon with, one whom Borges and Max Beerbohm would have admired … We haven’t heard the last of C. D. Rose.” —Michael Dirda, Washington Post