Ubo

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Pub Date Feb 14 2017 | Archive Date Feb 01 2017

Description

Daniel is trapped in Ubo. He has no idea how long he has been imprisoned there by the roaches. Every resident has a similar memory of the journey to Ubo: a dream of dry, chitinous wings crossing the moon, the gigantic insects dropping swiftly over the houses of the neighborhood, passing through walls and windows as if by magic, or science. The creatures, like a deck of baroquely ornamented cards, fanning themselves from one hidden world into the next. And now each day they force Daniel to play a different figure from humanity's violent history, from a frenzied Jack the Ripper to a stumbling and confused Stalin to a self-proclaimed god executing survivors atop the ruins of the world. The scenarios mutate day after day in this camp somewhere beyond the rules of time. As skies burn and prisoners go mad, identities dissolve as the experiments evolve, and no one can foretell their mysterious end.

Daniel is trapped in Ubo. He has no idea how long he has been imprisoned there by the roaches. Every resident has a similar memory of the journey to Ubo: a dream of dry, chitinous wings crossing the...


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ISBN 9781781085110
PRICE CA$19.99 (CAD)
PAGES 320

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Featured Reviews

Daniel is a human guinea pig. Along with many others, he was kidnapped, taken away from his life and family and awoke at UBO. Every day his captors, alien creatures resembling cockroaches, tune his mind to the cruelest humans who have ever lived, and the same happens to his companions. Daniel and the others wonder what is the reason that drives the cockroaches to carry out this experiment, for which they pay a very high price in terms of mental sanity, to the point that someone does not return from the labs and someone else, like Henry, who has come into contact with the mind of Gilles de Rais, goes mad forever.
One day, however, the ruined structure that houses UBO remains without power, and another horror begins...
One of the best dystopian novels I have ever read, really recommended to all those who investigate evil and its reasons.

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