{"product_id":"dark-constellations-paperback-by-pola-oloixarac-translated-by-roy-kesey","title":"Dark Constellations Paperback by Pola Oloixarac; translated by Roy Kesey","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                        \n                            \n                                \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                                \u003cul\u003e\n                                    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eSoho Press\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2020-03-17)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e216\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9781641291309\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e198.45\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e8.25 x 5.51 x 0.54\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                                \u003cbr\u003e\n                                \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eArgentinian 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Canary Islands, 1882: Caught in the 19th-century mania for scientific classification, explorer and plant biologist Niklas Bruun researches \u003ci\u003eCrissia pallida\u003c\/i\u003e, a species alleged to have hallucinogenic qualities capable of eliminating the psychic limits between one human mind and another.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                                \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                                \u003cp\u003ePola Oloixarac is a fiction writer and essayist. Her novels, \u003ci\u003eSavage Theories\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDark Constellations\u003c\/i\u003e, have been translated into eight languages. She wrote the libretto for the opera \u003ci\u003eHercules in Mato Grosso\u003c\/i\u003e, which was staged in Buenos Aires’s Teatro Colón and New York City, and her fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003en+1\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe White Review\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. Her pieces on politics and culture have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and on the BBC. She currently writes a weekly column in \u003ci\u003ePerfil\u003c\/i\u003e. She splits her time between Miami and Buenos Aires.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                            \n                        \n                        \u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Best Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":43337302114465,"sku":"BBSNIJ9781641291309","price":21.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/2084\/5473\/products\/9781641291309.jpg?v=1697651631","url":"https:\/\/www.bestbookstore.ca\/products\/dark-constellations-paperback-by-pola-oloixarac-translated-by-roy-kesey","provider":"Best Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}