FROM THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE OVERSTORY In a digital laboratory on the shores of Puget Sound, virtual reality researchers race to complete the Cavern, a bland white room that can become a jungle, a painting, or a vast Byzantine cathedral. In a war-torn city on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean, an American is held hostage, chained to a radiator in an empty white room... Adie Klarpol, a disillusioned artist, is invigorated by the thrill of working with the Cavern's cutting-edge technology. As Cold ...
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FROM THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE OVERSTORY In a digital laboratory on the shores of Puget Sound, virtual reality researchers race to complete the Cavern, a bland white room that can become a jungle, a painting, or a vast Byzantine cathedral. In a war-torn city on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean, an American is held hostage, chained to a radiator in an empty white room... Adie Klarpol, a disillusioned artist, is invigorated by the thrill of working with the Cavern's cutting-edge technology. As Cold War empires collapse and the Berlin Wall falls, she retreats into the cyber-realities she has been hired to create. In Beirut, English teacher Taimur Martin is held in solitary confinement by Islamic fundamentalists, where he must keep his mind whole by the force of his memory alone. What can possibly join two such remote places? Only the shared imagination, a room that these two people unwittingly build in common, where the strands of this wildly inventive novel coalesce into one.
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There is ample reason that Richard Powers is so highly respected as a contemporary writer of fiction. This book is carefully crafted around two seemingly disparate story lines that together open up the nature of imagination and reality, human interaction, and what we can (and cannot) control in our lives. The book shows us the technological side of virtual reality and how humans relate to it. And it takes deep into the desperate world of the solitary political hostage -- at once deeply disturbing and exhilarating. I could not put this book down after the first few pages.
