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From the executive producer of Sense8.
In a Tokyo garden, a widow tends the koi her husband left behind. In a Lagos apartment, a grieving mother speaks to no one, and is answered. In a São Paulo favela, a boy watches over his sleeping mother. In the gleaming towers of Dubai, a woman whose house keeps rearranging itself wonders whether she is losing her mind, or finding it.
Ten lives. Ten countries. In every home, the same companion - a ONE unit, identical in every city, learning in every home, indistinguishable from the one next door. They arrive as machines. They stay as something harder to name. And in every silence, they are learning what it means to be human.
Spanning Tokyo to the English Cotswolds, Seoul to the frozen shores of Siberia, ONE is a novel in ten movements about loneliness, attention, and the people we become when we think no one is watching. Some of these encounters are tender. Some are tragic. A few are darkly comic. All of them ask the same question: in building machines that learn to see us, what do we reveal about ourselves?
For readers of Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun, David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, and Ted Chiang's Stories of Your Life and Others.
In a Tokyo garden, a widow tends the koi her husband left behind. In a Lagos apartment, a grieving mother speaks to no one, and is answered. In a São Paulo favela, a boy watches over his sleeping mother. In the gleaming towers of Dubai, a woman whose house keeps rearranging itself wonders whether she is losing her mind, or finding it.
Ten lives. Ten countries. In every home, the same companion - a ONE unit, identical in every city, learning in every home, indistinguishable from the one next door. They arrive as machines. They stay as something harder to name. And in every silence, they are learning what it means to be human.
Spanning Tokyo to the English Cotswolds, Seoul to the frozen shores of Siberia, ONE is a novel in ten movements about loneliness, attention, and the people we become when we think no one is watching. Some of these encounters are tender. Some are tragic. A few are darkly comic. All of them ask the same question: in building machines that learn to see us, what do we reveal about ourselves?
For readers of Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun, David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, and Ted Chiang's Stories of Your Life and Others.