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THE HIGH-RISE DIVER - JULIA VON LUCADOU KARTONI...

Riva is a high-rise diver  a top athlete with millions of fans  and a perfectly functioning
human on all levels. Suddenly she rebels  breaking her contract and refusing to train. Cameras
are everywhere in her world  but she doesn't know her every move is being watched by Hitomi 
the psychologist tasked with reining Riva back in. Unquestionably loyal to the system  Hitomi's
own life is at stake: should she fail to deliver  she will be banned to the peripheries  the
filthy outskirts of society. For readers of The Handmaid's Tale  The Circle  and Brave New
World  this chilling dystopia constructs a world uncomfortably close to our own  in which
performance is everything. What makes Julia von Lucadou's novel so impressive is the accuracy
with which she describes this high-gloss  modern  but by no means completely fictional world.
Every detail is so precise that  lurking beneath the flawlessness of the text  the central
theme of perfidious self-optimization seems to always be present. -Süddeutsche Zeitung Julia
von Lucadou's science fiction is close. Against the backdrop of the gleaming images used to
portray this Orwellian-style city-state  the tragic moments of direct human encounters take on
a dimension of clever criticism. -Spiegel Online

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