Name: The Candy House, Paperback/Jennifer Egan
Brand: Scribner Book Company
Price: 119.99 RON
Availability: InStock

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* A New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book, a New York Times Notable Book and a Time Must-Read Book of 2022* Named a Best Book of 2022 by Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, Harper's Bazaar, NPR, Oprah Daily, Real Simple, Time Vogue, Vulture, The New Yorker and more! * Longlisted for the 2023 Carnegie Medal for Excellence Selected as One of Barack Obama's Summer 2022 Reading List Picks! "A compelling read that showcases Egan's masterful storytelling." -- Time "Dazzling." -- Vogue "Radiant, exhilarating." -- Slate "Mesmerizing...A thought-provoking examination of how and why we change." -- People From one of the most celebrated writers of our time comes an "inventive, effervescent" ( Oprah Daily ) novel about the memory and quest for authenticity and human connection. The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is "one of those tech demi-gods with whom we're all on a first name basis." Bix is forty, with four kids, restless, and desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or "externalizing" memory. Within a decade, Bix's new technology, "Own Your Unconscious"--which allows you access to every memory you've ever had, and to share your memories in exchange for access to the memories of others--has seduced multitudes. In the world of Egan's spectacular imagination, there are "counters" who track and exploit desires a