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Six degrees of freedom / Nicolas Dickner ; translated by Lazer Lederhendler.

Summary:

Lisa is a young woman with an eccentric and absent mother and a father slowly succumbing to Alzheimer's. Lisa's friend Éric is an agoraphobic hacker who ends up getting rich in Denmark before his eighteenth birthday. And Jay is a former computer pirate who's paying her debt to society, day by stultifiying day, working for the RCMP in Montreal. But when Jay learns of the existence of the mysterious ship container Papa Zulu she begins a clandestine investigation to discover who made it disappear and what they are trying to hide.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780345811189
  • ISBN: 0345811186
  • Physical Description: 323 pages ; 21 cm
  • Publisher: Toronto : Vintage Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, 2017.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Translation of: Six degrés de liberté.
Subject: Container ships > Fiction.
Hackers > Fiction.
International trade > Fiction.
Obsession in women > Fiction.
Secrecy > Fiction.
Technology > Fiction.
Montréal (Québec) > Fiction.
Genre: Canadian fiction.
French-Canadian fiction.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Sitka.

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  • Random House, Inc.
    A funny and fast-paced novel about obsession and adventure, science experiments and parakeets, coding and container ships, Six Degrees of Freedom won the Governor General's Literary Award in its original French. Nicolas Dickner is a previous winner of Canada Reads for the novel Nikolski.

    "Brilliant, beautiful and poetic with moments of pure reading pleasure! You read it with a smile on your lips--it's a book that makes you happy."
    --Anne Michaud, Bernier et Cie, Radio-Canada

    Three characters, infinite paths to freedom...
         Lisa is a young woman whose longing for adventure is tethered by the demands of an eccentric mother and a father slowly succumbing to Alzheimer's. Lisa's friend Éric is an agoraphobic hacker who becomes independently wealthy before his eighteenth birthday. And Jay is a former computer pirate who's paying her debt to society, day by stultifying day, working for the RCMP in Montreal. But when Jay learns of the existence of the mysterious shipping container Papa Zulu, she begins a clandestine investigation to discover who made it disappear and what they are trying to hide.

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