The government notices this and starts to track him down. His professional issue is that he’s written this program that he isn’t sure how it works, just that it does, and what it can do is identify a person based on how they use language. He also has some personal difficulties as the novel opens: his lover is leaving him for the man her parents have arranged for her to marry. Alif is the handle of the hero who is a hacktivist in his somewhat dystopic world where there’s a lot of government surveillance and restrictions of various freedoms. In some ways, the story reminded me of an Arabian Ready Player One, except that this was published in 2012 whereas Ready Player One was published in 2011, so it’s unlikely that Willow Wilson saw that before she wrote her version. Having now read Alif the Unseen, I have to say, good job whoever suggested this. In preparation for CBR book club in September, I picked up Alif the Unseen I chose this one since I’d already read one of the other options ( The Bear and the Nightingale) and I picked up the other option off the library shelf, flipped through it, and decided ‘Nope, not my style, this writing would drive me nuts’.
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