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Machines Like Me

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Mcewan, Ian
ISBN 
9781529111255
Format 
Paperback
Recommended Price 
R275.00
Published 
April 2020
About the book: 
Our foremost storyteller returns with an audacious new novel, Machines Like Me.
 
Number One Sunday Times  Bestseller
 
Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret.When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first batch of synthetic humans. With Miranda's assistance, he co-designs Adam's personality. This near-perfect human is beautiful, strong and clever - and soon a love triangle forms, which leads Charlie, Miranda and Adam to a profound moral dilemma. Can you design the perfect partner? What makes us human? Our outward deeds or our inner lives?
 
Provocative and moving, Machines Like Me  explores whether a machine can ever truly understand the human heart.
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About the Author

Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen books. His first published work, a collection of short stories,  First Love, Last Rites,  won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include  The Child in Time,  which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award;  The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam,  which won the 1998 Booker Prize;  Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; Nutshell; and Machines Like Me,  which was a number-one bestseller.  Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act  and  On Chesil Beach  have all been adapted for the big screen.

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