Name: turing´s delirium
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Author: Edmundo Paz Soldán
ISBN: 9780618872596

Type

Physical Book

Author

Edmundo Paz Soldán

Publisher

Harpervia

Language

English

Pages

291

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.8 x 16.8 x 1.9 cm

Weight

0.32 kg.

ISBN

0618872590

ISBN13

9780618872596

Synopsis "turing´s delirium"

The setting: Bolivia in the near future. Miguel "Turing" Saenz, a veteran cryptanalyst, is the most famous code-breaker in the employment of a secret government organization known as the Black Chamber. He is leading the pursuit of the Chamber's latest target: Kandinsky, a "cyberhacktivist" leader who is staging a war against both the government and the country's transnational corporations as part of an antiglobalization revolution. As Turing finds himself drawn into a web of murder, intrigue, and deception, he begins to suspect that his work is not as innocent as he once believed.

Edmundo Paz Soldán

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Edmundo Paz Soldán (Cochabamba, 1967) is a prominent Bolivian writer, known for his contribution to contemporary Latin American narrative. PhD in Latin American Literature from the University of California, Berkeley, he has been a professor of Latin American Literature at Cornell University since 1997. His work includes novels, short stories, and essays, exploring themes such as technology, politics, and identity. He was awarded the National Novel Prize of Bolivia in 2003 for El delirio de Turing and the Juan Rulfo Short Story Prize in 1997 for "Dochera".

Among his most notable works are Río fugitivo (1998), Los vivos y los muertos (2009), Iris (2014), Los días de la peste (2017), La vía del futuro (2021), and La mirada de las plantas (2022). His literary style is associated with the McOndo movement, characterized by an urban and technological realism that contrasts with traditional magical realism.

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