Helen Philips Hum recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de dystopische thriller van de Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 6 augustus 2024 verschijnt bij Marysue Rucci Books de nieuwe roman en thriller van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijfster Helen Philips. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de thriller is niet verkrijgbaar.
Helen Philips Hum recensie en review
- “A tense dystopian thriller set in a near-future where sophisticated artificial intelligence threatens human existence as we know it.” (Time)
- “A striking new work of dystopian fiction… Textured, intimate, and taut with dread, Phillips’s latest is a well-crafted machine with a throbbing pulse.” (Vogue)
- “The fearsome power of Phillips’s imagination always dazzles, but in this prescient novel, it’s the tender portrait of love and care in an uncertain world that leaves a lasting mark.” (Esquire)
Hum
- Auteur: Helen Philips (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: dystopische roman, thriller
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Marysue Rucci Books
- Verschijnt: 6 augustus 2024
- Omvang: 272 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
- Prijs: $27.99 / $14.99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van de nieuwe roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster Helen Philips
Named Most Anticipated by Goodreads, LitHub, and Book Riot, this “tense dystopian thriller” (TIME) captures an urgent and unflinching portrayal of a woman’s fight for her family’s security in a world shaped by global warming and rapid technological progress.
In a city addled by climate change and populated by intelligent robots called “hums,” May loses her job to artificial intelligence. In a desperate bid to resolve her family’s debt and secure their future for another few months, she becomes a guinea pig in an experiment that alters her face so it cannot be recognized by surveillance.
Seeking some reprieve from her recent hardships and from her family’s addiction to their devices, she splurges on passes that allow them three nights’ respite inside the Botanical Garden: a rare green refuge where forests, streams, and animals flourish. But her insistence that her son, daughter, and husband leave their devices at home proves far more fraught than she anticipated, and the lush beauty of the Botanical Garden is not the balm she hoped it would be. When her children come under threat, May is forced to put her trust in a hum of uncertain motives as she works to restore the life of her family.
Written in taut, urgent prose, Hum is a work of speculative fiction that unflinchingly explores marriage, motherhood, and selfhood in a world compromised by global warming and dizzying technological advancement, a world of both dystopian and utopian possibilities. As New York Times bestselling author Jeff VanderMeer says, “Helen Phillips, in typical bravura fashion, has found a way to make visible uncomfortable truths about our present by interrogating the near-future.”
Helen Phillips (1981, Colorado) is the author of six books, including the novel The Need, a National Book Award nominee and a New York Times Notable Book. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. Her collection Some Possible Solutions received the John Gardner Fiction Book Award. Her novel The Beautiful Bureaucrat was a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A professor at Brooklyn College, she lives in Brooklyn with artist/cartoonist Adam Douglas Thompson and their children.
