Publication Date: 08/02/2023 ISBN: 9781913513344 Category:

Vehicle

Jen Calleja

Publisher: Prototype Publishing Ltd.
Publication Date: 08/02/2023 ISBN: 9781913513344 Category:
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History has been erased by the state. A group of researchers evade capture in near-future Europe while piecing together the past. A central figure emerges in their research: a rockstar using her band as cover for spy work on behalf of the Institute for Transmission. Part espionage thriller, part band-road-novel, part dystopian fiction, Vehicle defies all categories and delivers a tremendous story of intrigue, migration, nationhood and, ultimately, hope. At once a warning, and a remedy for the future.

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In a time when looking into the past has become a socially unacceptable and illegal act in the Nation, a group of scholars are offered an attractive residency to allow them to pursue their projects. When the residency transpires to be a devastating trick, these Researchers go on the run, and soon discover that their projects all relate to one major event: the Isletese Disaster – the decline and subsequent devastation fifty years earlier of a long-forgotten roaming archipelago called The Islets.

One figure emerges as central to all of their work: Hester Heller, a reformed cult musiker turned student recruited from the Institute for Transmission as an agent of the state and tasked with gathering reconnaissance on the Disaster by using her old band Vehicle as a cover. Heller is the key to the Researchers collective story, which they try to piece together while evading their pursuers.

Compiled from the Researchers’ disparate documentation, recollections, and even their imaginations, Vehicle is a timely and daring exploration of xenophobia, exploitation, the writing of histories and legacies, and the politics of translation.

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