Апарат

In a Sofia of the near future, the most powerful business cartel in Eastern Europe, the Agreement, known as the Chains, is at war with the world's largest anti-consumerist organisation, Harmony, whose guru is Arleks. A failed marketer has built a machine meant to help people use their reason again after advertising has damaged it, while an ordinary young man who has never given such big questions much thought tries to pull off the coup of his life and nurses a secret, unusual wish. Part dystopia, part political thriller and novel of ideas, with gangsters, love and sex, the book treats consumer life, Bulgaria's transition and the global market as false achievements born of a misunderstood freedom.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

324 pages in the original

Genres

Satire (assigned by AI)

Set in

Bulgaria

First published

2013 by Ciela

ISBN

9789542812913 (original)