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From the critically acclaimed author of Savage Theories and Dark Constellations comes Pola Oloixarac''s Mona, where success as a "writer of color" proves to be a fresh hell for a young Latin American woman abroad. Mona, a Peruvian writer based in California, presents a tough and sardonic exterior: she likes drugs and cigarettes, has mysterious bruises on her neck, and pokes fun of American academic culture and its identity-fixation, of which she herself is a beneficiary: "In her role of overeducated Latina in the era of Trump, Mona experienced her serene captivity as a kind of freedom . . ." Nominated for "the most important literary prize in Europe," Mona sees a chance to escape her downward spiral of sunlit substance abuse and erotic distraction, and so trades the temptations of California for a small, gray village in Sweden. Now she is stuck in the company of all her jetlagged-and mostly male-competitors, arriving from Japan, Armenia, Iran, Iceland, Finland, and elsewhere. Isolated as they are, the writers do what writers do: complement each other, envy each other, stab each other in the back, and go to bed with one another. Finding she has not so much escaped her demons as locked herself up in the middle of nowhere with them, Mona''s adventures in Scandinavia paint a hypnotic, scabrous, and finally jawdropping portrait of a woman facing down a hipster elite to which she both does and does not belong. Bearing scars that are by no means merely literary, Mona endures plagiarism, patronization, and endless lectures, until her past catches up with her, and she triumphs at last, in a truly apocalyptic fashion. "Pola Oloixarac is one of the great writers of the Internet, the only country larger than Argentina." -Joshua Cohen.

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Praise for Dark Constellations A slim allegory written with a chat forums acrid wit . . . [A] spot-on depiction of tech-industry misogyny. The Atlantic Oloixarac toggles between severity and satire with Borgesian ease, yet her bleak visions of a society so easily conquered by a small number of amoral innovators is eerily plausible, and captured with an evocative lyricism. AV Club An ambitiously expansive novel. Vulture Combining esoteric sciences, arts, technologies, cultures, philosophies and even lexicons with heightened, poetic and dreamlike scenes and descriptions, [Oloixarac] transports readers into a reality at once entirely extraordinary and all too familiar. Spine Magazine Dark Constellations delivers exactly what you want in high-end science fictiona deep thinker of a novel with a wide-eyed gusto for getting weird. Southwest Review Dark Constellations is a grand saga of the anthropocene fever dream, spanning numerous continents, centuries, and species. With the technophilic, psychedelic flair of Thomas Pynchon and William Gibson, Pola Oloixarac tacks up miles of red yarn between 19th-century explorers, Argentinian cryptographers, secluded island tribes, computational biologists, and more. A novel of high style and heavyweight ideas, Dark Constellations charts a sublime order through the ritualistic carnage of science. Also, sex. Tony Tulathimutte, author of Private Citizens With Dark Constellations, Pola Oloixarac exceeds the high expectations she set with Savage Theories, her deliciously wicked debut. Whip-smart and gleefully irreverent, Oloixarac´s new novel establishes her as Argentina´s most ferocious literary export. Fusing sci-fi and slapstick, Dark Constellations goes where no American writer would dare to tread. If you thought satire was dead, you haven´t been reading Pola Oloixarac. Adam Morris, author of American Messiahs: False Prophets of a Damned Nation Dark Constellations has a daring and turbulent erudition. Its a cyberpunk with the bright colors of Latin America. Carol Bensimon, author of We All Loved Cowboys Intriguing and terrifying . . . [the] 19th century interludes that thread through the novel, a fever dream of sex and hallucinogenics and weird experiments, contrast beautifully against the straightlaced prose of Cassio and Pieras story. Locus Magazine This genre-defying novel blends science fiction with cyberpunk with naturalism to end up with something utterly original . . . Oloixarac is a massive, mysterious talent. Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review This wild anthropological ride blends political satire, psychedelic sexuality, and cyberpunk themes. Publisher´s Weekly Bracingly inventive . . . This esoteric, centuries-spanning approach brings to mind David Mitchells Cloud Atlas and Darren Aronofskys 2006 film The Fountain, though Oloixaracs novel is far stranger and more challenging than both. Full Stop An imagination that stands apart. Three Percent (University of Rochester) This novel skillfully marries cyberpunk themes and classic magical realist style . . . a must read for speculative fans who love variation in form as well as character. The Game of Nerds One of the first classics of Spanish literature in the 21st century. El Mundo A fascinating and bewildering dystopian and fantastic novel. The language couldnt be more bold, brimming over with erotic metaphors and philosophical references. Der Spiegel Pola Oloixarac seems to be one epistemological step ahead . . . An ingenious coming-of-age novel of the internet and a philosophical trip. Tagesspiegel ´´An imagination that stands apart.´´ Three Percent (University of Rochester) ´´Undeniably addictive . . . this exhilarating translation by Roy Kesey is out of this world.´´ Prairie Lights Books (Iowa City, Iowa) Praise for Pola Oloixarac A stunning vibrant maximalist whirlwind of a novel. Oloixaracs wit and ambition are evident on every page. Hari Kunzru, author of White Tears [An] exuberant blend of political satire and sexual picaresque. This book rewards total immersion: Come for the inevitable Borges allusions, stay for the, 16.04.2019, gebundene Ausgabe.

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Praise for Pola Oloixarac What constitutes the originality of Oloixaracs work is her representation of daily life, with a richness and color only hinted at by either Borges or Baudrillard. Her novels do more than allegorize the pursuit of knowledge or theorize the ontological status of the real in an age of unreality. Her multifaceted characters show something of what its like to inhabit a fleshy body in a world awash in representationswhich is to say, our own world. Public Books Praise for Dark Constellations A slim allegory written with a chat forums acrid wit . . . [A] spot-on depiction of tech-industry misogyny. The Atlantic Oloixarac toggles between severity and satire with Borgesian ease, yet her bleak visions of a society so easily conquered by a small number of amoral innovators is eerily plausible, and captured with an evocative lyricism. AV Club An ambitiously expansive novel. Vulture Rendered in beautiful English by Roy Kesey, whose translation reveals the complex layers of scientific, mystical, and technological vocabulary that Oloixarac so fearlessly wields. . . A wonderfully bizarre mix of scientific treatise, hallucinogenic history, and cyberpunk thriller. World Literature Today Combining esoteric sciences, arts, technologies, cultures, philosophies and even lexicons with heightened, poetic and dreamlike scenes and descriptions, [Oloixarac] transports readers into a reality at once entirely extraordinary and all too familiar. Spine Magazine Dark Constellations delivers exactly what you want in high-end science fictiona deep thinker of a novel with a wide-eyed gusto for getting weird. Southwest Review An enjoyable and enlightening read . . . readers are bound to close the book with an appreciation for Oloixaracs erudition and skill. Asymptote Journal Dark Constellations is a grand saga of the anthropocene fever dream, spanning numerous continents, centuries, and species. With the technophilic, psychedelic flair of Thomas Pynchon and William Gibson, Pola Oloixarac tacks up miles of red yarn between 19th-century explorers, Argentinian cryptographers, secluded island tribes, computational biologists, and more. A novel of high style and heavyweight ideas, Dark Constellations charts a sublime order through the ritualistic carnage of science. Also, sex. Tony Tulathimutte, author of Private Citizens With Dark Constellations, Pola Oloixarac exceeds the high expectations she set with Savage Theories, her deliciously wicked debut. Whip-smart and gleefully irreverent, Oloixarac´s new novel establishes her as Argentina´s most ferocious literary export. Fusing sci-fi and slapstick, Dark Constellations goes where no American writer would dare to tread. If you thought satire was dead, you haven´t been reading Pola Oloixarac. Adam Morris, author of American Messiahs: False Prophets of a Damned Nation Dark Constellations has a daring and turbulent erudition. Its a cyberpunk with the bright colors of Latin America. Carol Bensimon, author of We All Loved Cowboys Intriguing and terrifying . . . [the] 19th century interludes that thread through the novel, a fever dream of sex and hallucinogenics and weird experiments, contrast beautifully against the straightlaced prose of Cassio and Pieras story. Locus Magazine This genre-defying novel blends science fiction with cyberpunk with naturalism to end up with something utterly original . . . Oloixarac is a massive, mysterious talent. Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review This wild anthropological ride blends political satire, psychedelic sexuality, and cyberpunk themes. Publisher´s Weekly Bracingly inventive . . . This esoteric, centuries-spanning approach brings to mind David Mitchells Cloud Atlas and Darren Aronofskys 2006 film The Fountain, though Oloixaracs novel is far stranger and more challenging than both. Full Stop An imagination that stands apart. Three Percent (University of Rochester) This novel skillfully marries cyberpunk themes and classic magical realist style . . . a must read for speculative fans who love variation in form as well as character. The Game of Nerds One of the first classics of Spanish, 16.04.2019, gebundene Ausgabe.

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Dark Constellations, Praise for Dark Constellations A slim allegory written with a chat forums acrid wit . . . [A] spot-on depiction of tech-industry misogyny. The Atlantic Oloixarac toggles between severity and satire with Borgesian ease, yet her bleak visions of a society so easily conquered by a small number of amoral innovators is eerily plausible, and captured with an evocative lyricism. AV Club An ambitiously expansive novel. Vulture Combining esoteric sciences, arts, technologies, cultures, philosophies and even lexicons with heightened, poetic and dreamlike scenes and descriptions, [Oloixarac] transports readers into a reality at once entirely extraordinary and all too familiar. Spine Magazine Dark Constellations delivers exactly what you want in high-end science fictiona deep thinker of a novel with a wide-eyed gusto for getting weird. Southwest Review Dark Constellations is a grand saga of the anthropocene fever dream, spanning numerous continents, centuries, and species. With the technophilic, psychedelic flair of Thomas Pynchon and William Gibson, Pola Oloixarac tacks up miles of red yarn between 19th-century explorers, Argentinian cryptographers, secluded island tribes, computational biologists, and more. A novel of high style and heavyweight ideas, Dark Constellations charts a sublime order through the ritualistic carnage of science. Also, sex. Tony Tulathimutte, author of Private Citizens With Dark Constellations, Pola Oloixarac exceeds the high expectations she set with Savage Theories, her deliciously wicked debut. Whip-smart and gleefully irreverent, Oloixarac´s new novel establishes her as Argentina´s most ferocious literary export. Fusing sci-fi and slapstick, Dark Constellations goes where no American writer would dare to tread. If you thought satire was dead, you haven´t been reading Pola Oloixarac. Adam Morris, author of American Messiahs: False Prophets of a Damned Nation Dark Constellations has a daring and turbulent erudition. Its a cyberpunk with the bright colors of Latin America. Carol Bensimon, author of We All Loved Cowboys Intriguing and terrifying . . . [the] 19th century interludes that thread through the novel, a fever dream of sex and hallucinogenics and weird experiments, contrast beautifully against the straightlaced prose of Cassio and Pieras story. Locus Magazine This genre-defying novel blends science fiction with cyberpunk with naturalism to end up with something utterly original . . . Oloixarac is a massive, mysterious talent. Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review This wild anthropological ride blends political satire, psychedelic sexuality, and cyberpunk themes. Publisher´s Weekly Bracingly inventive . . . This esoteric, centuries-spanning approach brings to mind David Mitchells Cloud Atlas and Darren Aronofskys 2006 film The Fountain, though Oloixaracs novel is far stranger and more challenging than both. Full Stop An imagination that stands apart. Three Percent (University of Rochester) This novel skillfully marries cyberpunk themes and classic magical realist style . . . a must read for speculative fans who love variation in form as well as character. The Game of Nerds One of the first classics of Spanish literature in the 21st century. El Mundo A fascinating and bewildering dystopian and fantastic novel. The language couldnt be more bold, brimming over with erotic metaphors and philosophical references. Der Spiegel Pola Oloixarac seems to be one epistemological step ahead . . . An ingenious coming-of-age novel of the internet and a philosophical trip. Tagesspiegel ´´An imagination that stands apart.´´ Three Percent (University of Rochester) ´´Undeniably addictive . . . this exhilarating translation by Roy Kesey is out of this world.´´ Prairie Lights Books (Iowa City, Iowa) Praise for Pola Oloixarac A stunning vibrant maximalist whirlwind of a novel. Oloixaracs wit and ambition are evident on every page. Hari Kunzru, author of White Tears [An] exuberant blend of political satire and sexual picaresque. This book rewards total immersion: Come for the inevitable Borges allusions, stay for the, gebundene Ausgabe, 16.04.2019.

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Dark Constellations, Praise for Dark Constellations A slim allegory written with a chat forums acrid wit . . . [A] spot-on depiction of tech-industry misogyny. The Atlantic Oloixarac toggles between severity and satire with Borgesian ease, yet her bleak visions of a society so easily conquered by a small number of amoral innovators is eerily plausible, and captured with an evocative lyricism. AV Club An ambitiously expansive novel. Vulture Rendered in beautiful English by Roy Kesey, whose translation reveals the complex layers of scientific, mystical, and technological vocabulary that Oloixarac so fearlessly wields. . . A wonderfully bizarre mix of scientific treatise, hallucinogenic history, and cyberpunk thriller. World Literature Today Combining esoteric sciences, arts, technologies, cultures, philosophies and even lexicons with heightened, poetic and dreamlike scenes and descriptions, [Oloixarac] transports readers into a reality at once entirely extraordinary and all too familiar. Spine Magazine Dark Constellations delivers exactly what you want in high-end science fictiona deep thinker of a novel with a wide-eyed gusto for getting weird. Southwest Review An enjoyable and enlightening read . . . readers are bound to close the book with an appreciation for Oloixaracs erudition and skill. Asymptote Journal Dark Constellations is a grand saga of the anthropocene fever dream, spanning numerous continents, centuries, and species. With the technophilic, psychedelic flair of Thomas Pynchon and William Gibson, Pola Oloixarac tacks up miles of red yarn between 19th-century explorers, Argentinian cryptographers, secluded island tribes, computational biologists, and more. A novel of high style and heavyweight ideas, Dark Constellations charts a sublime order through the ritualistic carnage of science. Also, sex. Tony Tulathimutte, author of Private Citizens With Dark Constellations, Pola Oloixarac exceeds the high expectations she set with Savage Theories, her deliciously wicked debut. Whip-smart and gleefully irreverent, Oloixarac´s new novel establishes her as Argentina´s most ferocious literary export. Fusing sci-fi and slapstick, Dark Constellations goes where no American writer would dare to tread. If you thought satire was dead, you haven´t been reading Pola Oloixarac. Adam Morris, author of American Messiahs: False Prophets of a Damned Nation Dark Constellations has a daring and turbulent erudition. Its a cyberpunk with the bright colors of Latin America. Carol Bensimon, author of We All Loved Cowboys Intriguing and terrifying . . . [the] 19th century interludes that thread through the novel, a fever dream of sex and hallucinogenics and weird experiments, contrast beautifully against the straightlaced prose of Cassio and Pieras story. Locus Magazine This genre-defying novel blends science fiction with cyberpunk with naturalism to end up with something utterly original . . . Oloixarac is a massive, mysterious talent. Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review This wild anthropological ride blends political satire, psychedelic sexuality, and cyberpunk themes. Publisher´s Weekly Bracingly inventive . . . This esoteric, centuries-spanning approach brings to mind David Mitchells Cloud Atlas and Darren Aronofskys 2006 film The Fountain, though Oloixaracs novel is far stranger and more challenging than both. Full Stop An imagination that stands apart. Three Percent (University of Rochester) This novel skillfully marries cyberpunk themes and classic magical realist style . . . a must read for speculative fans who love variation in form as well as character. The Game of Nerds One of the first classics of Spanish literature in the 21st century. El Mundo A fascinating and bewildering dystopian and fantastic novel. The language couldnt be more bold, brimming over with erotic metaphors and philosophical references. Der Spiegel Pola Oloixarac seems to be one epistemological step ahead . . . An ingenious coming-of-age novel of the internet and a philosophical trip. Tagesspiegel ´´An imagination that stands apart.´´ Three Percent (University of Rochester) ´´Undeniably, gebundene Ausgabe, 16.04.2019.

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Pola Oloixarac, Books, Mystery and Suspense, Savage Theories, A stunning vibrant maximalist whirlwind of a novel. Oloixarac’s wit and ambition are evident on every page. By comparison, most other contemporary fiction seems a little dull and simple-minded. —Hari Kunzru, author of Gods Without MenA debut novel of seduction and madness, hate and love, set in the world of Argentine academia and animated by the spirits of Wittgenstein, Rousseau, Nabokov and Bolaño Rosa Ostreech, a pseudonym for the novel’s beautiful but self-conscious narrator, carries around a trilingual edition of Aristotle’s Metaphysics, struggles with her thesis on violence and culture, sleeps with a bourgeois former guerrilla, and pursues her elderly professor with a highly charged blend of eroticism and desperation. Elsewhere on campus, Pabst and Kamtchowsky tour the underground scene of Buenos Aires, dabbling in ketamine, group sex, video games, and hacking. And in Africa in 1917, a Dutch anthropologist named Johan van Vliet begins work on a theory that explains human consciousness and civilization by reference to our early primate ancestors—animals, who, in the process of becoming human, spent thousands of years as prey.Savage Theories wryly explores fear and violence, war and sex, eroticism and philosophy. Its complex and flawed characters grapple with a mess of impossible, visionary theories, searching for their place in our fragmented digital world.

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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 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. Erscheint vorauss. 16. April 2019 Lieferzeit 1-2 Werktage.

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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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Savage-Theories~~Pola-Oloixarac, Savage Theories, Paperback.