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Soho Press
April 2019
On Sale: April 16, 2019
216 pages
ISBN: 1616959231
EAN: 9781616959234
Kindle: B07FRZR6H8
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Mystery Historical
Argentinian literary star Pola Oloixarac's visionary new
novel races from the world of 19th-century science to an
ultra-surveilled near future, exploring humanity's quest for
knowledge and control, and leaping forward to the next steps
in human evolution. Canary Islands, 1882: Caught in the 19th-century mania for
scientific classification, explorer and plant biologist
Niklas Bruun researches Crissia pallida, a species
alleged to have hallucinogenic qualities capable of
eliminating the psychic limits between one human mind and
another. Buenos Aires, 1983: Born to a white Argentinian
anthropologist and a black Brazilian engineer, Cassio comes
of age with the Internet and becomes a prominent hacker,
riding the wave of transformations brought about by
distributed networks, mass surveillance, and new flows of
globalized capital. The southern Argentinian techno-hub of Bariloche, 2024: A
research group works on a project that will allow the
Ministry of Genetics to track every movement of the
country's citizens without their knowledge or consent, using
sensors that identify DNA at a distance. But the new
technology contains within it the seeds of a far more
radical transformation of human life and civilization. In a
novel of towering ambition, Oloixarac's complexly
intertwining stories reveal the power that resides in the
world's most deeply shadowed spaces.
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