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Dark Constellations
Written by Pola Oloixarac
Narrated by Justine Eyre
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Canary Islands, 1882: Caught in the nineteenth-century wave of scientific classification, explorer and plant biologist Niklas Bruunis 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 demonstrates the skills and personality that will make him one of the first great Argentine hackers.
The southern Argentinian techno-hub of Bariloche, 2024: Piera, on the same research group as Cassio, studies human DNA. When the Estromatoliton project comes to fruition, the Argentine government will be able to track every movement of its citizens without their knowledge or consent, using censors that identify DNA at a distance.
In a dazzling novel of towering ambition, Oloixarac proves that true power resides in the world's most deeply shadowed interstices, as beautiful and horrifying as dark constellations themselves.
Buenos Aires, 1983: Born to a white Argentinian anthropologist and a black Brazilian engineer, Cassio comes of age with the Internet, and demonstrates the skills and personality that will make him one of the first great Argentine hackers.
The southern Argentinian techno-hub of Bariloche, 2024: Piera, on the same research group as Cassio, studies human DNA. When the Estromatoliton project comes to fruition, the Argentine government will be able to track every movement of its citizens without their knowledge or consent, using censors that identify DNA at a distance.
In a dazzling novel of towering ambition, Oloixarac proves that true power resides in the world's most deeply shadowed interstices, as beautiful and horrifying as dark constellations themselves.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherHighbridge Company
TranslatorRoy Kesey
Release dateApr 16, 2019
ISBN9781684418565
Author
Pola Oloixarac
Pola Oloixarac was born in Buenos Aires. She is one of Granta's Best of Young Spanish-language Novelists. She was awarded the 2021 Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer's Award and is an Eccles fellow at the British Library. Oloixarac is a regular contributor to The New York Times, El País and La Nación, and her fiction has appeared in Granta, n+1, the White Review and Freeman's. She lives in Barcelona.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Großartig, Pola erschafft eine Welt , die ich beim Lesen fast körperlich erleben konnte. Für alle, die sich mit unserer Zukunft und die Rolle, die Technologie spielen kann/wird ist dieses Buch eine Entdeckung. Aber auch der Eindruck von Südamerika macht dieses Buch zu einer interessanten Lesereise.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Der hochbegabte Cassio, Sohn eines brasilianischen Ingenieurs und einer argentinischen Mutter, legte bereits als 12-Jähriger New Yorker Banken lahm. Ein Genie der Hackerszene, der nach einem Mathestudium sein Talent nicht recht einzusetzen weiß und sexuelle Desaster erleidet. Er trifft eines Tages Max, seinen größten Gegner der Szene wieder. Max wirbt Cassio an, an dem geheimen Projekt "Stromatolithon" mitzuwirken. Ziel ist es, die ungeheure Datenflut aus sozialen Netzwerken mit menschlicher DNA zu verbinden und aus diesem "Datenkumulus" Lebenslinien zu bilden und damit die Herrschaft des Establishments anzugreifen. Der 1. ins Deutsche übersetzte Roman der argentinischen Bloggerin verbindet narrative Passagen mit historischen Ausflügen in die Forschung des 19. Jahrhunderts. Aus Sicht ihres Helden Cassio erlebt der Leser die Entwicklung des Computerzeitalters, gespickt mit unzähligen Anspielungen auf Musik und Filmkunst nach. Illustriert mit Ornamenten, ist der Titel in einem schlichten Cover nur für ein eingeschränktes Publikum zugänglich. Bibliotheken können verzichten.