A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR'Gnomon is an extraordinary novel, and one I can’t stop thinking about some weeks after I read it.
It is deeply troubling, magnificently strange, and an exhilarating read.
' Emily St.
John Mandel, author of Station Eleven'Nick Harkaway’s most ambitious novel yet.
[A] story of near-future mass surveillance, artificial intelligence and human identity .
An amazing and quite unforgettable piece of fiction.
' Guardian'Harkaway dazzles.
' Daily Mail'Wonderfully good.
' Sunday TimesNear-future Britain is a state in which citizens are constantly observed and democracy has reached a pinnacle of 'transparency.
' Every action is seen, every word is recorded and the System has access to thoughts and memories.
When suspected dissident Diana Hunter dies in custody, it marks the first time a citizen has been killed during an interrogation.
Mielikki Neith, a trusted state inspector, is assigned to find out what went wrong.
Immersing herself in neural recordings of the interrogation, what she finds isn't Hunter but rather a panorama of characters within Hunter's psyche.
Embedded in the memories of these impossible lives lies a code which Neith must decipher to find out what Hunter is hiding.
The staggering consequences of what she finds will reverberate throughout the world.
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