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Title Statement | Gnomon: a novel / Nick Harkaway. |
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Author | Harkaway, Nick, 1972- |
Publication | New York: Alfred A. Knopf,2018. |
Edition | First American edition. |
Extent of Item | 661 pages |
ISBN | 1524732087 9781524732080 |
Other Number | 3232245 |
Summary | "In the world of Gnomon, citizens are ceaselessly observed and democracy has reached a pinnacle of "transparency." When suspected dissident Diana Hunter dies in government custody during a routine interrogation, Mielikki Neith, a trusted state inspector, is assigned to the case. Immersing herself in neural recordings of the interrogation, she finds a panorama of characters and events that Hunter gave life to in order to forestall the investigation: a lovelorn financier in Athens who has a mystical experience with a shark; a brilliant alchemist in ancient Carthage confronting the unexpected outcome of her invention; an expat Ethiopian painter in London designing a controversial new video game. In the static between these mysterious visions, Neith begins to catch glimpses of the real Diana Hunter--and, alarmingly, of herself, the staggering consequences of which will reverberate throughout the world."--Provided by publisher. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Government investigators--Fiction |
Secrecy--Fiction | |
Government, Resistance to--Fiction | |
Telepathy--Fiction | |
By Genre | Science fiction |
Dystopias | |
Black humor (Literature) | |
Mystery fiction |