{"product_id":"stay-this-day-and-night-with-me-9780872868939","title":"Stay This Day and Night with Me","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is the story of Olga, a retired mathematician, and Mateo, a college student passionate about robotics, and their plot to influence Google.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This book has excited me more than any that I have read this year.\"\u003cb\u003e--Sam Sacks, \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is a beautifully written, endlessly provocative meditation on humanity's relationship to technology, monopoly, memory and fate.\"-- \u003cstrong\u003eDave Eggers, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Circle\u003c\/em\u003e and\u003cem\u003e The Every\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter a chance encounter at the public library, two new friends begin to meet up regularly. Together they decide to submit an application for Google sponsorship to an elite technology-training program. Hoping to stand out, they frame their submission as a direct appeal to the \"conscience\" of the seemingly all-powerful corporation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOlga, a retired entrepreneur, and Mateo, a college student, find unexpected connection and solace in their conversations. Ideas and arguments open into personal stories as they debate the possibility of free will, the existence of merit, and the role of artificial intelligence. They ask the most basic and important of questions: What does it mean to be human in a reality shaped by data and surveillance? Is there still space for empathy and care? What could we be, what could we build, if we used our resources in different ways?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBelén Gopegui \u003c\/b\u003eburst onto the Spanish literary scene in 1993, bowling over critics with her debut, \u003ci\u003eLa escala de los mapas\u003c\/i\u003e [\u003ci\u003eThe Scale of Maps\u003c\/i\u003e, City Lights, 2011], which was hailed as a masterpiece. She has since published six more novels, stories, young people's fiction, and screenplays, and several of her books have been adapted for cinema. This is her second translation into English. Gopegui was born, and lives in, Madrid, Spain.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Schafer\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning literary translator and visual artist, and a senior lecturer at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, where he teaches Spanish. He has translated works by authors from around the Spanish-speaking world, including David Huerta, Virgilio Piñera, Alberto Ruy Sánchez, and Belén Gopegui's \u003ci\u003eLa escala de los mapas\u003c\/i\u003e [\u003ci\u003eThe Scale of Maps\u003c\/i\u003e, City Lights, 2011]. Schafer is a founding member of the Boston Area Literary Translators Group. He lives in Roxbury, Massachusetts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"City Lights Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50496994443538,"sku":"9780872868939","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4d0dfdfc-18fd-4156-933d-aeeab19482ed.jpg?v=1730704450","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/stay-this-day-and-night-with-me-9780872868939","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}