Ebook The Book of Breathing

Luigi Ferdinando Dagnese lacks no talent essential to novel-writing, whether erotic, psychological, sentimental, fantastic. His "Book of Breathing" evokes the worst nightmares of a technology run wild beyond all control in Silicon Valley. The great questions of our multicultural age are raised, concerning the crisis of historical progress, the ethics of capitalism, and the search for knowledge. The human drama of our objective difficulties and dilemmas is felt with all the despair they warrant and yet also with the touch of humor that makes them almost bearable. It is a challenging and disturbing assessment of our contemporary condition but also unexpectedly affirming. "The Book of Breathing" is simply astonishing. It can compare with the best successes of Salman Rushdie. (William Franke, Vanderbilt University and University of Macau)