Book description
In the near future bees are extinct - until five unconnected
individuals, in different parts of the world, are stung. Immediately
snatched up by ominous figures in hazmat suits, interrogated searately
in neutral Ikea-like chambers, and then released as
15-minute-celebrities into a world driven almost entirely by the
internet, these five unforgettable people endure a barrage of unusual
and highly 21st-century circumstances. A charismatic scientist with
dubious motives eventually brings the quintet together, and their
shared experience unites them in a way they could never have imagined.
Generation A mirrors the structure of 1991's Generation
X as it champions the act of reading and storytelling as one of
the few defences we still have against the constant bombardment of the
senses in a digital world. Like much of Coupland's writing, it
occupies the perplexing hinterland between optimism about the future
and everyday, apocalyptic paranoia, and is his most ambitious and
entertaining novel to date.
DOUGLAS COUPLAND was born on a NATO base in Germany in 1961. He is
the author of the international bestseller JPOD and ten other novels
including THE GUM THIEF, HEY NOSTRADAMUS!, ALL FAMILIES ARE PSYCHOTIC
AND GENERATION X. His books have been translated into thirty-five
languages and published in most countries around the world. He is also a
visual artist and sculptor, furniture designer and screenwriter. He
lives and works in Vancouver.
