In Joël Dicker's latest thriller, "The Enigma of Room 622," the murder of Alaska Sanders in 1999 seems solved, but eleven years later, author Marcus Goldman and Sergeant Perry Gahalowood reopen the case. As they delve deeper, they uncover hidden truths and past ghosts, revealing a complex web of intrigue and deception.
"At twenty-five years old, Anna Wiener was beginning to tire of her assistant job in New York publishing. There was no room to grow, and the voyeuristic thrill of answering someone else's phone had warn thin. Within a year she had moved to Silicon Valley to take up a job at a data analytics startup in San Francisco. Leaving her business casual skirts and shirts in the wardrobe, she began working in company-branded t-shirts. She has a healthy income for the first time in her life. She felt like part of the future. But a tide was beginning to turn. People were speaking of tech startups as surveillance companies. Out of sixty employees, only eight of her colleagues were women. Casual sexism was rife. Sexual harassment cases were proliferating. And soon, like everywhere else, she was addicted to the internet, refreshing the news, refreshing social media, scrolling and scrolling and scrolling. Slowly, she began to realise that her blind faith in ambitious, arrogant young men from America's soft suburbs wasn't just her own personal pathology. It had become a global affliction. 'Uncanny Valley' is a coming of age story set against the backdrop of our generation's very own gold rush. It's a story about the tension between old and new, between art and tech, between the quest for money and the quest for meaning - about how our world is changing forever."-- Book jacket
Wegetarianka to polifoniczna opowieść, która zaintryguje nie tylko zwolenników ekofeminizmu, lecz także osoby lubiące zgłębiać topografię ludzkiej psyche. Han Kang z chirurgiczną precyzją przetwarza żywą tkankę egzystencji i prowadzi czytelnika różnymi ścieżkami narracji, aby zmusić go do zadania sobie kilku pytań: Na czym polega moje istnienie? Czy potrafię być tylko człowiekiem? Czy umiem wyrzec się człowieczeństwa i stać się na przykład drzewem? Jest to refleksja nad metodami sublimacji ludzkiej żądzy, możliwością transcendencji i zasadnością samodestrukcji w desperackiej próbie wyzwolenia. Refleksja nad sferą ludzkiej wolności.