Agri Ismaïl

Rafiq Hardi Kermanj, founder of the Communist Party of Kurdistan, is forced to flee Tehran for London with his family. In London, they suffer the shame of penury and migration layered on Kurdish statelessness. The lives of Rafiq's three children becoming increasingly dependent on their relationship to money: Siver, the only daughter, escapes into an unhappy marriage in Baghdad before fleeing to raise her daughter as a single mother in Dubai. Mohammed, the eldest, stays in London to climb the unforgiving ladder of the financial sector. Laika, the youngest, retreats into a contactless digital life, designing the trading algorithms that will ultimately prove his downfall in a condo near Wall Street. Sharp, topical, and powerful, Hyper is a story about what remains of our humanity in a world increasingly dominated by the flows of capital. Perfect for fans of Zadie Smith, Moshin Hamid, and Jennifer Egan. 'Delicious, harrowing, gutting, hilarious, and deeply necessary, Hyper is a masterpiece.' Porochista Khakpour, author of Brown Album

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'Did you know the Romans had a specific war flag? That they used when they went to war?' 

All flags are war flags, Xezal said and turned to look out the window.

Our history would die with our hard drives, the most well- documented century in the history of the world a dark age for future civilisations as they would find badly degraded drives and DVDS and floppy disks and be unable to read them. We thought the Dutch tulip mania was odd, an entire nation driving itself into bankruptcy over tulip bulbs, while we worked ourselves to literal death for data, believing the cloud and its servers would last for ever.

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