Bøger af Pola Oloixarac

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.

”På en gang en satirisk komedie, et rystende psykologisk portræt af en kvindes opløsning og et filosofisk anklageskrift. Læs den og bliv overrasket.” – Siri Hustvedt Mona er en ung peruansk forfatter, der lever et liv på kanten. Da hun for sin debutroman bliver nomineret til en fornem svensk litteraturpris, og en medstuderende samtidig efter en fest efterlader hende bevidstløs på en togperron, udskifter hun Californien med en skovsø i Sverige. I det idylliske svenske landskab er hun i nogle dage del af en gruppe internationale og meget selvoptagede forfattere, der holder hinanden i ånde erotisk og intellektuelt, mens de venter på juryens afgørelse af, hvem af dem der skal have den prestigefulde pris. Mona tuller rundt på festivalen i sin valiumbedøvede tilstand, indtil mødet med en lyshåret svensker får historien om de mange blå mærker på hendes krop til at træde frem af tågen. Med Mona tegner den argentinske forfatter Pola Oloixarac et fascinerende portræt af en forfatter med ”farvet-latina-inka-ikke-hvid” baggrund og hendes liv i den amerikansk-europæiske intellektuelle elite.

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.