Name: Machines Like me
SKU: 51645741
Price: 850.00 TWD
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Author: Ian McEwan
ISBN: 9781787331679

Type

Physical Book

Author

Ian McEwan

Publisher

Random House Uk

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781787331679

Machines Like me

Ian McEwan (Author) · Random House Uk · Paperback

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Synopsis "Machines Like me "

Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding.Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. 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 – a love triangle soon forms. These three beings will confront a profound moral dilemma. Ian McEwan’s subversive and entertaining new novel poses fundamental questions: what makes us human? Our outward deeds or our inner lives? Could a machine understand the human heart? This provocative and thrilling tale warns of the power to invent things beyond our control.

Ian McEwan

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Ian McEwan (n. 1948) es un aclamado novelista y guionista británico, conocido por su prosa refinada y temas oscuros en sus inicios ("Ian Macabre"), que evolucionaron hacia obras maestras como Expiación y Amor perdurable, ganando prestigiosos premios como el Booker por Ámsterdam, y destacando por su exploración de la obsesión, la moralidad y la memoria, siendo adaptadas muchas de sus obras al cine con éxito

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