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Machines Like Me

ISBN 
9781529111255
Format 
Paperback
Recommended Price 
R275.00
Published 
April 2020
About the book: 
Our foremost storyteller returns with an audacious new novel, Machines Like Me.
 
Number One Sunday Times  Bestseller
 
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 - and soon a love triangle forms, which leads Charlie, Miranda and Adam to a profound moral dilemma. Can you design the perfect partner? What makes us human? Our outward deeds or our inner lives?
 
Provocative and moving, Machines Like Me  explores whether a machine can ever truly understand the human heart.
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