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We Had To Remove This Post (Paperback): Hanna Bervoets We Had To Remove This Post (Paperback)
Hanna Bervoets; Translated by Emma Rault
R340 R266 Discovery Miles 2 660 Save R74 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

'A glimpse of the foetid underbelly of the internet' - The Times 'Taut as a thriller, sharp as a slug of ice-cold vodka' - Irish Times To be a content moderator is to see humanity at its worst - but Kayleigh needs money. That's why she takes a job working for a social media platform whose name she isn't allowed to mention. Her job: reviewing offensive videos and pictures, rants and conspiracy theories, and deciding which need to be removed. It's gruelling work. Kayleigh and her colleagues spend all day watching horrors and hate on their screens, evaluating them with the platform's ever-changing moderating guidelines. Yet Kayleigh is good at her job, and in her colleagues she finds a group of friends, even a new girlfriend - and for the first time in her life, Kayleigh's future seems bright. But soon the job seems to change them all, shifting their worlds in alarming ways. How long before the moderators own morals bend and flex under the weight of what they see? We Had To Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets is a chilling, powerful and gripping story about who or what determines our world view. Examining the toxic world of content moderation, the novel forces us to ask: what is right? What is real? What is normal? And who gets to decide? Translated from the original Dutch by Emma Rault. 'A superbly poised, psychologically astute and subtle' - Ian McEwan, author of Atonement 'Fast paced and thrilling, violent and nightmarish' - Kristen Arnett, author of Mostly Dead Things 'An acid glimpse into a new form of labor existing today' - Ling Ma, author of Severance

We Had To Remove This Post (Paperback): Hanna Bervoets We Had To Remove This Post (Paperback)
Hanna Bervoets; Translated by Emma Rault
R250 R195 Discovery Miles 1 950 Save R55 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

DOES WHAT YOU SEE CHANGE WHO YOU ARE? Kayleigh is broke. Out of options, she takes a job as a content moderator, reviewing horrors and hate online and deciding which posts needs to be removed. Kayleigh is good at her job, and in her colleagues she finds a group of friends, even a new girlfriend. For the first time in her life, the future seems bright . . . But soon the job begins to shift Kayleigh’s world in alarming ways. In the glare of the screen, how long can Kayleigh hold on to her humanity? We Had To Remove This Post is translated from the Dutch by Emma Rault. ‘A superbly poised, psychologically astute and subtle novel of mental unravelling’ - Ian McEwan, author of Atonement ‘This novel gives us an acid glimpse into a new form of labor existing today . . . Fascinating and disturbing’ - Ling Ma, author of Severance

The Days of Bluegrass Love (Hardcover): Edward Van De Vendel The Days of Bluegrass Love (Hardcover)
Edward Van De Vendel; Translated by Emma Rault
R323 Discovery Miles 3 230 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Tycho Zeling is drifting through his life. Everything in it - school, friends, girls, plans for the future - just kind of ... happens. Like a movie he presses play on, but doesn't direct. So Tycho decides to break away from everything. He flies to America to spend his summer as a counselor at a summer camp, for international kids. It is there that Oliver walks in, another counselor, from Norway. And it is there that Tycho feels his life stop, and begin again, finally, as his. The Days of Bluegrass Love was originally published in the Netherlands in 1999. It was a groundbreaking book and has since become a beloved classic throughout Europe, but has never been translated into English. Here, for the first time, it is masterfully presented to American readers - a tender, intense, unforgettable story of first love.

We Had To Remove This Post (Hardcover): Hanna Bervoets We Had To Remove This Post (Hardcover)
Hanna Bervoets; Translated by Emma Rault
R320 Discovery Miles 3 200 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'A glimpse of the foetid underbelly of the internet' - The Times 'Taut as a thriller, sharp as a slug of ice-cold vodka' - Irish Times To be a content moderator is to see humanity at its worst - but Kayleigh needs money. That's why she takes a job working for a social media platform whose name she isn't allowed to mention. Her job: reviewing offensive videos and pictures, rants and conspiracy theories, and deciding which need to be removed. It's gruelling work. Kayleigh and her colleagues spend all day watching horrors and hate on their screens, evaluating them with the platform's ever-changing moderating guidelines. Yet Kayleigh is good at her job, and in her colleagues she finds a group of friends, even a new girlfriend - and for the first time in her life, Kayleigh's future seems bright. But soon the job seems to change them all, shifting their worlds in alarming ways. How long before the moderators own morals bend and flex under the weight of what they see? We Had To Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets is a chilling, powerful and gripping story about who or what determines our world view. Examining the toxic world of content moderation, the novel forces us to ask: what is right? What is real? What is normal? And who gets to decide? Translated from the original Dutch by Emma Rault. 'A superbly poised, psychologically astute and subtle' - Ian McEwan, author of Atonement 'Fast paced and thrilling, violent and nightmarish' - Kristen Arnett, author of Mostly Dead Things 'An acid glimpse into a new form of labor existing today' - Ling Ma, author of Severance

The Dandy (Paperback): Nina Polak The Dandy (Paperback)
Nina Polak; Translated by Emma Rault
R162 Discovery Miles 1 620 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Ghosts Of Berlin (Paperback): Rudolph Herzog Ghosts Of Berlin (Paperback)
Rudolph Herzog; Translated by Emma Rault
R494 R399 Discovery Miles 3 990 Save R95 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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