Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2010 'A triumph. Brimful of wit and narrative energy' Sunday Times 'Novels rarely come as funny and as moving as this. One of the finest comic novels written anywhere' Irish Times Ruprecht Van Doren is an overweight genius whose hobbies include very difficult maths and the Search of Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. Daniel 'Skippy' Juster is his roommate. In the grand old Dublin institution that is Seabrook College for Boys, nobody pays either of them much attention.