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Roy Kesey

    Roy Kesey is an author and translator whose work delves into the intricate landscape of human nature and relationships. His narratives often explore complex moral ambiguities and the multifaceted nature of existence. Kesey's prose is marked by its precision and a keen ability to capture the subtle nuances of emotional and psychological depth. Through his writing, he seeks to illuminate the often-hidden truths about ourselves and the world we inhabit.

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    Dark Constellations
    • Dark Constellations

      • 202 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      Canary Islands, 1882: Caught in the 19th-century wave of scientific classification, explorer and plant biologist Niklas Bruunis researches Crissia pallida, a species alleged to have hallucinogenic qualities capable of eliminating the psychic limits between one human mind and another. Buenos Aires, 1983: Born to a white Argentinian anthropologist and a black Brazilian engineer, Cassio comes of age with the Internet, and demonstrates the skills and personality that will make him one of the first great Argentine hackers. The southern Argentinian techno-hub of Bariloche, 2024: Piera, on the same research group as Cassio, studies human DNA. When the Estromatoliton project comes to fruition, the Argentine government will be able to track every movement of its citisens without their knowledge or consent, using censors that identify DNA at a distance. In a dazzling novel of towering ambition, Oloixarac proves that true power resides in the world's most deeply shadowed interstices, as beautiful and horrifying as dark constellations themselves.

      Dark Constellations
    • John Segovia, Amerikaner in Peru, ist ein liebenswerter Freund, ein überschwänglicher Liebhaber und ein leidenschaftlicher Seine Faszination gilt der glanzvollen und grausamen Geschichte der Inkas und Konquistadoren, seine Besessenheit aber der Suche nach dem unbekannten Mörder seiner geliebten Frau Pilar, die eines Abends vom Nachtmarkt nicht mehr zurückgekehrt ist.Zerrissen zwischen dem Wunsch nach Rache, schmerzhaften Erinnerungen und der alltäglichen Betreuung seiner kleinen Tochter Mariángel, wandert John durch die pulsierende Stadt Piura. Die blutige Geschichte des Landes vermengt sich mit seiner chaotischen Gegenwart, während John, den sein trockener Humor und seine buntgemischter Freundeskreis aufrecht halten, mit Zorn und Zärtlichkeit einen Weg zurück ins Leben finden muss.

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