Verdict: carrot
Beukes’ ability to be astutely, bang-on-target contemporary is astounding. Its not just that she points out that modern life is strange, with our dependencies on the internet for all sorts of validation, but that she’s willing to explore so many facets of it so fast and so cleverly. The dialogue of her characters rings disturbingly true—we’re all prone to constantly hiding behind electronic screens, referring to information gathered on various social media feeds, Buzzfeed ‘listicles’, texting instead of talking, discovering that what’s worse than fifteen minutes of fame is ‘the same fifteen minutes again and again, and it doesn’t change anything’.
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- Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes
EAN: 9781415202005
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