Weighing in at nearly 600 pages, "Book of Numbers" is an unabashedly ambitious novel. It considers some of the most pressing concerns of this technology-fuelled era, such as the illusion of privacy and the loneliness of hyper-connectedness. It features not one but two characters with the same name as the author, Joshua Cohen, which has become a favourite device of writers keen to seem playful by toying with meta-narrative profundities. Sprawling and messy, spanning continents and styles, the book is already being heralded as a "Ulysses" for the digital age.
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