Pola Oloixarac

A novel of seduction and madness, animated by the spirits of Wittgenstein, Rousseau, Nabokov and Bolaño. Buenos Aires. The mysterious narrator, who is a student at the School of Philosophy, stalks a middle-aged professor, desperate to reveal that she alone understands his theories. Unable to earn his affection, she strategically seduces a former leftist guerilla and toys with him, blurring...

Devil-may-care daring and biting humour . . . Think Rachel Cusk's autofiction on skunk and OxyContin and you're in the right ballpark - The Times Enjoyably mischievous and daring - Financial Times Ruthless, very funny - New York Times Mona is a Peruvian writer based on a Californian campus, open-eyed and sardonic, a connoisseur of marijuana and prescription pills. In...

Dark Constellations by Argentinian literary star Pola Oloixarac is a visionary novel that races from the world of 19th-century science to an ultra-surveilled near future. It explores humanity's quest for knowledge and control, while leaping forward to the next steps in human evolution. Canary Islands, 1882—Caught in the 19th-century mania for scientific classification, explorer and plant biologist Niklas Bruun researches...