Pola Oloixarac
1) Mona
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"Mona, a Peruvian writer based in California, presents a tough and sardonic exterior. She likes drugs and cigarettes, and when she learns that she is something of an anthropological curiosity—a woman writer of color treasured at her university for the flourish of rarefied diversity she brings—she pokes fun at American academic culture and its fixation on identity. When she is nominated for 'the most important literary award in Europe,' Mona sees...
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Canary Islands, 1882: Caught in the nineteenth-century wave of scientific classification, explorer and plant biologist Niklas Bruunis researches Crissia pallida, a species alleged to have hallucinogenic qualities capable of eliminating the psychic limits between one human mind and another.
Buenos Aires, 1983: Born to a white Argentinian anthropologist and a black Brazilian engineer, Cassio comes of age with the Internet, and demonstrates the skills...
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A student at the Buenos Aires School of Philosophy attempts to put her life, academically and romantically, in the service of a professor whose nearly forgotten theories of violence she plans to popularize and radicalize, against his wishes. Meanwhile, a young couple, a documentary filmmaker, and a blogger engage in a series of cerebral and sexual misadventures.
In a novel crammed with philosophy, group sex, revolutionary politics, and a fighting...