{"product_id":"zed-9781984898340","title":"Zed","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne corporation has made a perfect world based on a perfect algorithm. Now, what to do with all these messy people?\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e Dazzlingly original and darkly comic, \u003ci\u003eZed\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJOANNA 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 \u003ci\u003eInglorious\u003c\/i\u003e won the Orange Award for New Writing, and her novel \u003ci\u003eThe Birth of Love\u003c\/i\u003e was longlisted for the Orange Prize. Joanna Kavenna's writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, London Review of Books, The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and many others. She was named as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in 2013.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50377089581330,"sku":"9781984898340","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_eadd9333-f786-449e-adf6-61470c74b16f.jpg?v=1728615672","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/zed-9781984898340","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}