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Renee Gladman’s *Event Factory* follows a linguist and traveler who arrives by plane in the enigmatic city of Ravicka, renowned for its yellow air. An unnamed crisis has forced its inhabitants to flee, leaving the landscape and the city pulse in tumult. Though the protagonist speaks the native language fluently, she finds herself perpetually on the margins of every experience. As the city’s existence—its life, its performance—unfolds around her, the narrative explores the tension between observation and participation in a world that appears to elude her control.
First publish date: 2010
Genre: General Fiction/General Fiction
Authors: Renee Gladman
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