Une anticipation science-fictionnelle de la vie dans l'avant-dernier chapitre de l'Amérique : le premier roman, une fiction expérimentale, de l'écrivaine et artiste new-yorkaise d'origine canadienne suit un groupe de personnages dans un futur proche, qui vivent et meurent sous la menace d'une nouvelle sorte de bombe mortelle appelée Peacemaker.
A new kind of bomb is being built.
A girl grows up to destroy herself. A cattle farmer runs for president. A phantom haunts Western Massachusetts. A neuroscientist plays god. A housewife becomes a test subject. An activist group becomes a terrorist cell. The American Empire enters its penultimate chapter.
Though the scientists forging the bomb don't know it, the Peacemaker will be the end of us. But first, the fog settles. We are preoccupied with falling in love; buying an election; finding something to eat. From Montreal to Berlin, Manhattan to outer space, we are busy living and dying. Some of us are ghosts already.
A bittersweet elegy exploring secret desires, unspeakable thoughts, and disgusting impulses, Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars studies how decisions are made under unbearable pressure, how power is created and destroyed, and how—sometimes—we are subject to forces even greater than ourselves.
Avec des illustrations originales de l'autrice.
Charlotte Graham (née à Montréal) est écrivaine, artiste et assistante sociale basée à New York.
