Fiction by Ian Mc Ewan
This was a strange story. The premise is that Thomas Metcalfe is a historian in the year 2119 and he specializes in the period of 1990 to 2030. He is particularly interested in an event called the Second Immortal Dinner which took place in 2014; it was a dinner party where several people of literary importance were in attendance.
(Incidentally I couldn’t believe there was ever an actual First Immortal Dinner, but I looked it up. On 28 December 1817 some painter had a bunch of people over to his house in London, including Keats and Wordsworth. Of course, in real life it's just called The Immortal Dinner. So it's not such a stretch to imagine that there could be another dinner so aggrandizedly labeled, I guess.)
The beginning of the book, the futuristic part, was a little slow and draggy. I almost gave up, but part two of the book, in which we switch narrators and discover the real events of the past, is really good.
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