Twist: a novel

R$ 157,90

Sinopse

"Everything gets fixed, and we all stay broken."A propulsive novel of rupture and repair in the digital age, delving into a hidden world deep under the ocean—from the New York Times bestselling author of Apeirogon and Let the Great World Spin.Anthony Fennell, an Irish journalist and playwright, is assigned to cover the story of the underwater cables that carry the world’s information. The sum of human existence—words, images, transactions, memes, voices, viruses—travels through the tiny fiber optic tubes. But sometimes the tubes break at an unfathomable depth.Fennell’s literary adventure brings him to the west coast of Africa where he uncovers a story about the raw human labor behind the dazzling veneer of the technological world. He meets a fellow Irishman, John Conway, the chief of mission on a cable repair ship. The mysterious Conway is a skilled engineer and a freediver capable of reaching extraordinary depths. He is also in love with a South African actress, Zanele, who must leave to go on her own journey to London.When the boat is sent up the west coast of Africa to repair a series of major underwater breaks, both men learn that the very cables they seek to fix carry the news that may cause their lives to unravel. At sea, they are forced to confront the most elemental questions of life, love, absence, belonging and the perils of our severed connections. Can we, in our fractured world, reweave ourselves out of the thin, broken threads of our pasts? Can the ruptured things awaken us from our despair?Resoundingly simple and turbulent at the same time, Twist is a mediation on the nature of narrative and truth from one of the great storytellers of our times.

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Autor: Colum Mccann

Autor

COLUM MCCANN

Autor de dois livros de contos e seis romances, como Zoli, Dancer e This side of brightness, Colum McCann (1965, Dublin, Irlanda) foi traduzido para mais de 30 línguas e teve seus textos publicados em revistas como New Yorker, New York Times Magazine e Paris Review. Começou a carreira como jornalista do Irish Press e já contribuiu com The Guardian, The Independent, La Republicca, Paris Match e The New York Times, entre outros. Seu último trabalho, Let the great world spin, lhe rendeu, em 2009, o National Book Award e foi considerado pela revista Esquire “o primeiro grande romance sobre 11 de setembro”. O livro parte da famosa travessia do equilibrista francês Philippe Petit entre as torres do World Trade Center de Nova York, em 1974, para narrar histórias fictícias de anônimos que o observavam no momento.

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