machines like me
- Author: Ian Mcewan
- ISBN: 978-1-5291-1126-2
- EAN: 9781529111262
- Editorial: RANDOM HOUSE INT
- Language: English
- Edizio urtea: 2020
- Format: RUSTIKA
- Page count: 320
- Size: 178x110x29
1-3 weeks
Synopsis
Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first batch of synthetic humans. With Miranda"s assistance, he co-designs Adam"s personality. This near-perfect human is beautiful, strong and clever " a love triangle soon forms. These three beings will confront a profound moral dilemma. Ian McEwan"s subversive and entertaining new novel poses fundamental questions: what makes us human? Our outward deeds or our inner lives? Could a machine understand the human heart? This provocative and thrilling tale warns of the power to invent things beyond our control.
