{"product_id":"dark-constellations-9781641291309","title":"Dark Constellations","description":"\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Soho Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50362190397714,"sku":"9781641291309","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f3dc68ce-50c3-4e46-a540-0f1778393bba.jpg?v=1728379328","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/dark-constellations-9781641291309","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}