"This is a novel so caustic it should be printed with hydrochloric acid. Berg, a Swiss writer and social activist, sprays her fury across the whole landscape of technological and economic manias that are rendering the 21st century intolerable. And Tim Mohr has done a remarkable job of translating Berg-s hilarious, hectoring, hyperbolic prose, which isn-t so much propulsive as relentless...No other book has so thoroughly rattled me about where we-re headed." -Ron Charles, the Washington Post
The first English translation of iconic Swiss-German novelist Sibylle Berg-a ruthless indictment of contemporary society and a strikingly creative manifesto for rebellion.
Rochdale is a town in post-industrial Britain, but it could be anywhere on the digitalized, environmentally-decimated planet: a place devoid of hope, where poverty, violence, and squalor are the near-future consequences of decisions being made at this very moment. Grime is the dazzling multi-v
