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Title	:	Oval
Author	:	Elvia Wilk
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	June 4th 2019 by Soft Skull Press
Categories	:	Fiction. Science Fiction. Dystopia

Oval Paperback | Pages: 320 pages

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In the near future, Berlin’s real estate is being flipped in the name of “sustainability,” only to make the city even more unaffordable; artists are employed by corporations as consultants; and the weather is acting strange. In search of affordable housing, young couple Anja and Louis move into a community on an artificial mountain, The Berg—yet another “eco-friendly” initiative run by a corporation called Finster. They’re offered a home rent-free in exchange for keeping quiet about the seriously malfunctioning infrastructure of the experimental house.

But when Louis returns home from his mother’s funeral in America, Anja is convinced he has changed. He seems to be in denial of his grief and newly idealistic, consumed by a secret project at the NGO where he works as an artist-consultant. Anja is horrified when she discovers what Louis has invented: a pill called Oval that temporarily rewires the user’s brain to be more generous. Louis is convinced that if he can introduce the drug into the Berlin club scene, he can finally remedy the income disparity that has made Berlin so unlivable.

Oval is a fascinating portrait of the unbalanced relationships that shape our world, as well as a prescient warning of what the future may hold.

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ISBN:	1593764057 (ISBN13: 9781593764050)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Berlin(Germany)

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look just put some solar panels on your roof and call it a day

In an alternate/near future Berlin, Anja lives in a malfunctioning eco house on a steep hill with her American boyfriend, Lewis. It's a world where corporations control everything and artists are contracted to companies, their work and even their bodies part of the corporate machine. The weather has gone haywire, with vast fluctuations taking place within single days. Anja works as a scientist until she's promoted into a consultant role, while her boyfriend grows distant as he works on a new

Disappointing. I had high hopes for this one. But the novel focused more on the narrator's relationship issues rather than creating a fully realized dystopian world. The more interesting critique of capitalism and neoliberal corporate takeovers faded into the background in sacrifice for the narrator's breakup. Ugh. Other characters acted as foils to the narrator, rather than fleshed out people. The novel felt crowded with these half (if that) developed characters. I couldn't keep track of them,

It took almost 200 pages until the book caught up to (and advanced beyond) the premise/events described on the dust jacket. That's where the book engaged me, but it's got me wondering what I was supposed to be getting out of those first 177 pages, or whether all of them were necessary. (Well, it's got me talking about this book having a transactional relationship with its reader, though I think the transactional relationship happens post-page-177 as well.) From what I can tell, it's a lot of

"Why do we willingly submit ourselves to social defeat at the hands of those we don't respect?" Anja laments the banality of Berlin's non-stop clubbing and drugging scene, a scene she at once wants to belong to and at the same time, abhors. Anjas low self-esteem and overall feelings of inadequacy contribute to her shyness and ultimately, to her social defeat. Independently wealthy, she wears her Real Job jacket as an earth scientist to provide insulation from her friends all-night partying. Her



For more of my book content check out instagram.com/bookalong This book blew my mind! I thought it was a brilliant dystopian story. It takes place in the near furure but touched on so much that seems so close to our reality it was frightening! It was also funny, fast paced and very engrossing! I will definitely be on the lookout for whatever Elvia Wilk does next. This one will be available June 4th! Thank You to the publisher for sending me this #ARC. @softskullpress has been publishing