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by Joanna Kavenna
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Availability:In StockContributor:Joanna KavennaPublish date:2020-12-08Pages:352
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Publishing GroupISBN-13:9781984898340ISBN-10:1984898345UPC:9781984898340Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Satire, Literary, DystopianSize:8.01 x 5.20 x 0.75 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCEK8A788H
From the winner of the 2008 Orange Award for New Writing comes a blistering, satirical novel about life under a global media and tech corporation that knows exactly what we think, what we want, and what we will do--before we do.

One corporation has made a perfect world based on a perfect algorithm. Now, what to do with all these messy people?
Lionel Bigman is dead. Murdered by a robot. Guy Matthias, the philandering founder and CEO of the mega-corporation Beetle, insists it was human error. But was it? Either the predictive algorithms of Beetle's supposedly omniscient "lifechain" don't work, or, they've been hacked. Both scenarios are impossible to imagine and signal the end of Beetle's technotopia and life as we know it.
Dazzlingly original and darkly comic, Zed asks profound questions about who we are, what we owe to one another, and what makes us human. It describes our moment--the ugliness and the beauty--perfectly.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Publishing GroupISBN-13:9781984898340ISBN-10:1984898345UPC:9781984898340Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Satire, Literary, DystopianSize:8.01 x 5.20 x 0.75 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCEK8A788H
JOANNA KAVENNA grew up in Britain, and has also lived in the US, France, Germany, China, Sri Lanka, Scandinavia, and the Baltic states. She is the author of several critically acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction. Her novel Inglorious won the Orange Award for New Writing, and her novel The Birth of Love was longlisted for the Orange Prize. Joanna Kavenna's writing has appeared in The New Yorker, London Review of Books, The New York Times and many others. She was named as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in 2013.
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group

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