Dark Constellations: A Novel

by Pola Oloixarac Narrated by Justine Eyre

Overview

Canary Islands, 1882: Caught in the nineteenth-century wave of scientific classification, explorer and plant biologist Niklas Bruunis researches Crissia pallida, a species alleged to have hallucinogenic qualities capable of eliminating the psychic limits between one human mind and another.

Buenos Aires, 1983: Born to a white Argentinian anthropologist and a black Brazilian engineer, Cassio comes of age with the Internet, and demonstrates the skills and personality that will make him one of the first great Argentine hackers.

The southern Argentinian techno-hub of Bariloche, 2024: Piera, on the same research group as Cassio, studies human DNA. When the Estromatoliton project comes to fruition, the Argentine government will be able to track every movement of its citizens without their knowledge or consent, using censors that identify DNA at a distance.

In a dazzling novel of towering ambition, Oloixarac proves that true power resides in the world's most deeply shadowed interstices, as beautiful and horrifying as dark constellations themselves.

Editorial Reviews

JULY 2019 - AudioFile

Justine Eyre’s breathless delivery of this genre-bending novel, especially its unvarying cadence, can quickly become monotonous for the listener. The three interconnected stories in this second work by the award-winning Argentine author are set in different time periods—the age of exploration, the nineteenth century; the beginning of the digital age, the 1980s; and the near future, when privacy is all but nonexistent. Yet all take place in a fecund landscape in which plants and animals are as sentient as humans. It is such an unusual work—incorporating such popular literary trends as eco-sci-fi, magical realism, and cyberpunk—that the listener might very well overlook the shortcomings of the narration. While not for everyone, this audiobook will no doubt find its audience. D.G.P. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940171476526
Publisher:	HighBridge Company
Publication date:	04/16/2019
Edition description:	Unabridged

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