Author: Pola Oloixarac
Translator: Roy Kesey
Publisher: Soho Press
Paperback
Staff Picks: "Pola Oloixarac's novel feels ripped from the headlines, dealing in digital surveillance paranoia, incel subculture, bioweapons, and contagion. A hallucinatory history that moves backwards and forwards between a baroque botanial expedition to the Canaries in the colonial era and the equally overblown fantasies of today's tech conquistadors, Oloixarac's third novel offers something more than satire in its brilliant shifts of register from coldly scientific to wildly poetic. In its Herzogian weirdness, it's totally perfect for right now."