Paridaiza

Luis de Miranda

Translated from the French by Tina Kover

Paridaiza, a sense-stimulating game invented at the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century, is a three-dimensional reproduction of Earth; a vast holographic territory referred to by its devotees as Biearth to distinguish it from what they now—and not without irony—call Old Earth. Cities such as New York, Peking, Moscow, Paris, and Berlin can be found in Paridaiza, duplicated with unsettling accuracy.

In this breathtaking novel by Luis de Miranda, presented here in a masterful translation by Tina Kover, Paridaiza one day welcomes Clara and Nuno, a drifting couple who hope to find re-enchantment in this virtual world where everything is possible.

About the Author
Luis de Miranda, a novelist and philosopher, was born in 1971, in Portugal, and was raised and has spent most of his life in Paris. He is the author of numerous books, both fiction and non-fiction, which have won him critical praise in France.

About the Translator
Tina Kover is the translator of more than a dozen works of fiction and non-fiction, including Alexandre Dumas’s Georges, Benoît Peeters’ Hergé: Son of Tintin, and Négar Djavadi’s Disoriental. Her translations have twice been nominated for the IMPAC Dublin International Literary Award and she was the recipient in 2009 of a Literary Translation Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in the United States. She lives in the northeast of England.

Paperback, 204 pages. Release date, October 6, 2020
ISBN-13: 978-1-64525-046-3
Price: US$17.50

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PODCASTS

Will Virtual Reality Liberate us or Enslave us? – Podcast about the novel Paridaiza