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Daunt Books Children's Short Story Competition 2013

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    The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman

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    Egon Loeser - the central character of Beauman's sprawling, Booker-longlisted novel - is, as his name suggests, a bit of a loser, hanging on at parties, drinking and paying no attention at all to the evolving social changes in 1930s Germany. After a chance encounter with a girl who promptly leaves the country, Egon embarks on an aimless and futile search that takes him to Paris, New York and Hollywood. Strange and energetic - sometimes frustratingly so - Beauman's second novel is reminiscient of Tom McCarthy's epic C.