ISBN: 9781982156183
Editorial: Scribner
Año de edición: 2021
N° Paginas: 304
Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
Descripción: Biografía del autor Tahmima Anam is the recipient of a Commonwealth Writers Prize, an O. Henry Prize, and has been named one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists. She is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times and was recently elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, she was educated at Mount Holyoke College and Harvard University and now lives in London where she is on the board of ROLI, a music tech company founded by her husband. Named a Best Book of the Year by NPRIn this "wise and wickedly funny novel about love, creativity, and the limitations of the tech-verse" (Vogue) newlyweds Asha and Cyrus find themselves running one of the most popular social media platforms in the world.Meet Asha Ray. Brilliant coder and possessor of a Pi tattoo, Asha is poised to make a scientific breakthrough when she is reunited with her high school crush, Cyrus Jones. Before she knows it, Asha has abandoned her lab, exchanged vows with Cyrus, and gone to work at an exclusive tech incubator called Utopia to develop an app called WAI--"We are Infinite." WAI creates a sensation, with millions of users logging on every day. Will Cyrus and Asha's marriage survive the pressures of sudden fame, or will she become overshadowed by the man everyone is calling the new messiah? This "scathing--and hilarious--take on startup culture, marriage and workaholism" (Politico) explores whether or not technology--with all its limits and possibilities--can disrupt modern love. Críticas **Longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize** "Scathing yet hilarious... A compulsively readable novel -- and a piercing satire on startup culture and gender politics." --The Skimm"Anam writes with a delightful wryness about young people today, startup culture and the onset of the end of the world. The Startup Wife is a fun, intelligent contemporary novel about timely ethical questions." --Charleston Post & Courier "The Startup Wife is an incisive satire about faith, technology and intimacy in the modern world. When three close friends (two of whom are a couple) form a startup to create customized spiritual experiences that help the masses connect, it has the ironic effect of blowing their relationships apart. What's especially thorny is that while the algorithm and research that make the tech work belong to South Asian American Asha, her charismatic white husband is the star the media and investors want to see. Tahmima Anam's novel is a thought-provoking skewering of startup culture specifically - but because Americans revere tech and its leaders, we all share in those sins." --Carole V. Bell, NPR "A whip-smart, funny, and searing look at the wild world of startups." --Good Morning America Book Club Buzz Pick "The buzziest novel of the summer. . . . there's delicious humor in the subtly savage takedowns of the Silicon Valley system. . . . Anam deftly explores the gender politics of the book's central partnership." --Entertainment Weekly "A feminist comic novel about the tech world. . . . the bliss Asha felt when she gave up her PhD studies and reconnected with Cyrus, her high school crush, may not outlast his ambitions." --Bethanne Patrick, The Washington Post "A wise and wickedly funny novel about love, creativity, and the limitations of the tech-verse." --Vogue "Faith, feminism, and our automated future make for a delicious mash-up in this satirical novel. . . . Anam's penetrating look at the tech world's discrimination pairs beautifully with her meditation on marriage and faith." --Esquire "A scathing--and hilarious--take on startup culture, marriage and workaholism." --Politico "Takes the age-old cliché of a woman being undermined by men at work and places it in the center of a modern, satirical story." --CNN.com "Anam has a wicked sense of humor, taking aim at startup culture and doomsday preppers while pointing out the lack of feminism and women of color in the tec
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