Cache of Amulets, Advance 3 (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

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A kaleidoscopic portrait of a modern family living through the chaos of recent history explodes the idea of the pandemic novel.

Antonio is on the verge of beginning his latest novel, which aims to be, among other things, a book that does not contemplate loss. "I am tired of writing these super sad novels," he says. Soon after he begins, however, the world is paralyzed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Ida, his former wife and the mother of his two young daughters, has to contend with the death of her father and with the remote care of her mother in Czechia, and Antonio, his family, and his novel are all forced to adapt to this abrupt change in circumstances.

A reader feels intimately the claustrophobia and monotony of the pandemic years, as well as the glittering, slot-machine-like allure of the Internet as a temporary reprieve from the isolation of lockdown. Amidst drudgery and grief are moments of play and connection, particularly between Antonio and his daughters, who share an authentically tender, loving, and mutually nourishing relationship that reaches beyond familial comfort into the realm of creative inspiration.

Expansive in its interests and the breadth of the ideas it tackles, A Cache of Amulets, Advance 3 is simultaneously a family novel, a diary of lockdown, and an experiment with the generative potential of literature, as Cárdenas brilliantly explores the impacts of AI, chatbots, and algorithmic possibility on the process of writing itself.