The exhilarating debut novel by iconic filmmaker David Cronenberg: the story of two journalists whose entanglement in a French philosopherβs death becomes a surreal journey into global conspiracy.
Stylish and camera-obsessed, Naomi and Nathan thrive on the yellow journalism of the social-media age. They are lovers and competitorsβnomadic freelancers in pursuit of sensation and depravity, encountering each other only in airport hotels and browser windows.
Nathan, meanwhile, is in Budapest photographing the controversial work of an unlicensed surgeon named ZoltΓ‘n MolnΓ‘r, once sought by Interpol for organ trafficking. After sleeping with one of MolnΓ‘rβs patients, Nathan contracts a rare STD called Roipheβs. Nathan then travels to Toronto, determined to meet the man who discovered the syndrome. Dr. Barry Roiphe, Nathan learns, now studies his own adult daughter, whose bizarre behavior masks a devastating secret.
These parallel narratives become entwined in a gripping, dreamlike plot that involves geopolitics, 3-D printing, North Korea, the Cannes Film Festival, cancer, and, in an incredible number of varieties, sex. Consumed is an exuberant, provocative debut novel from one of the worldβs leading film directors.
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