Description
‘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
‘Pola Oloixarac is one of the great writers of the Internet, the only country larger than Argentina’ Joshua Cohen, author of Book of Numbers
Argentinian literary star Pola Oloixarac’s visionary new novel races from the world of nineteenth-century science, through the late 1980s, to 2024, when an Argentinian research group is working 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 complex and intertwining stories reveal the power that resides in the world’s most deeply shadowed spaces
‘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
About the Author
Pola Oloixarac is a fiction writer and essayist. Her novels, Savage Theories and Dark Constellations, have been translated into eight languages. She wrote the libretto for the opera Hercules in Mato Grosso, which was staged in Buenos Aires’s Teatro Colón and New
York City, and her fiction has appeared in Granta, n+1, and The White Review, among others. Her pieces on politics and culture have appeared in The New York Times and on the BBC. She currently writes a weekly column in Perfil. She splits her time between Miami and
Buenos Aires.
About the Translator
Roy Kesey is the translator of Pola Oloixarac’s first novel, Savage Theories (Soho Press 2017). He is the author of two short story collections and two novels. He has received an NEA grant for fiction and a PEN/Heim grant for translation. His short stories, essays, translations, and poems have appeared in more than a hundred magazines and anthologies, including Best American Short Stories and New Sudden Fiction.
