The Book of Numbers

A monumental, uproarious, and exuberant novel about the search-for love, truth, and the meaning of Life. With The Internet Limited First Edition comes with exclusive fold-out jacket poster. The enigmatic billionaire founder of Tetration, the world's most powerful tech company, hires a failed novelis [...]
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A monumental, uproarious, and exuberant novel about the search-for love, truth, and the meaning of Life. With The Internet Limited First Edition comes with exclusive fold-out jacket poster. The enigmatic billionaire founder of Tetration, the world's most powerful tech company, hires a failed novelist, Josh Cohen, to ghostwrite his memoirs. The mogul, known as Principal, brings Josh behind the digital veil, tracing the rise of Tetration, which started in the earliest days of the Internet by revolutionizing the search engine before venturing into smartphones, computers, and the surveillance of global citizens. Principal takes Josh on a mind-bending world tour from Palo Alto to Dubai and beyond, initiating him into the secret pretext of the autobiography project and the life-or-death stakes that surround its publication. Insider tech expose, leaked memoir-in-progress, international thriller, family drama, sex comedy, and biblical allegory, Book of Numbers renders the full range of modern experience both online and off. Embodying the Internet in its language, it finds the humanity underlying the virtual.Featuring one of the most unforgettable characters in contemporary fiction, Book of Numbers is an epic of the digital age, a triumph of a new generation of writers, and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do. Please note that Book of Numbers uses a special pagination system inspired by binary notation: the section number precedes the page number, and is separated from it by a decimal point.