Ebook {Epub PDF} Oval by Elvia Wilk

Elvia Wilk is a writer and editor living in New York. Her first novel, Oval, was published in June by Soft Skull press, and a book of essays called Death By Landscape is forthcoming in She is the recipient of a Andy Warhol Arts Writers grant and a fellowship at the Berggruen Institute.  · Now readers can explore the issues in fiction with Elvia Wilk’s Oval, a timely dive into the meaning of doing good and the power structures in society. On a muddy mountain Wilk’s novel follows Anja through the dilemmas of trying to make the world a better place while living a good life. Oval is an up-to-the-minute story about the twilight zones of corporate design, aesthetics, pharmacy, and bioengineering, where there’s nothing consultants won’t break in the quest for ‘innovation.’ What could possibly go wrong? Find out in Elvia Wilk’s crisp and stylish debut book.”—McKenzie Wark.

Elvia Wilk's debut novel, Oval, exquisitely depicts the exhaustion of trying to maintain your footing among the reality distortions of 21st-century companies like Google. In the near-future. Elvia Wilk is a writer and editor living in New York. Her first novel, Oval, was published in June by Soft Skull press, and a book of essays called Death By Landscape is forthcoming in She is the recipient of a Andy Warhol Arts Writers grant and a fellowship at the Berggruen www.doorway.ru to she was a founding editor at uncube magazine, and from to she. Elvia Wilk's debut novel Oval is a speculative meditation on the evil humans do—to the planet and to each other. It's also a distinctly millennial love story and a sometimes sharp and sometimes meandering critique of modern society. Set in Berlin in the near future, the narrative focuses on a late-twenties independently wealthy and deeply.

Elvia Wilk's novel Oval is like an ever-expanding sphere. A slow-growing, smoldering fire that doesn't really dig in and become something until the very, very, very end. If much of Oval is given to picking apart the self-satisfied pretensions of tech culture, the book bares its teeth in its closing chapters, when Oval finally hits the streets — and backfires disastrously, driving the story to a fiery, apocalyptic finish. What Wilk exposes in these final pages, deftly, is not only the emptiness of “innovation” or “disruption” culture, but that a culture built around empty words can still result in very real, very devastating consequences. Elvia Wilk's Oval is a coruscating examination of the inherent contradictions and attendant evils of neoliberalism that also serves as a reminder that most of our store-bought dystopias are designed as lullabies for creatures of privilege.