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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Unica

Unica

Fontenaille, Elise

Paperback

Literary Fiction

ISBN10: 2234058503
ISBN13: 9782234058507
Publisher: Stock
Published: Jan 10 2007
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.38 Width: 5.32 Depth: 8.47
Language: French

The story takes place in Vancouver, in the near future. Herb Charity is a cyber policeman, part of a specialised branch of the police force that hunts down pedophiles on the Net. During one of their inquests, he arrests a young woman and falls in love with her. Yet Unica Bathory is a disconcerting character: a women who appears to have stopped growing up - a fake child with white hair. She is also the leader of a gang of nanoterrorists that punishes voyeurs as well as the clients of pedophilic networks by injecting their cortex with a computer chip to make them feel the pain of the children they abuse - an unbearable suffering that can provoke blindness.
At the frontier between reality and the virtual, truth and deceit, a strange love story develops between Herb, a young man not yet fully adult, and Unica, a grown up woman locked in the body of a young girl. Unica is a cruel and playful tale that takes place in a very near future and offers a highly topical reflection on the era of virtuality (love through machines, virtual crimes...).
Élise Fontenaille is a formidable story teller. Hers are wonder worlds populated with the strangest of characters. With Unica, she constructs a story in the tradition of Philip-K. Dick and Tim Burton's fiction.

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