Thread ripper
Smith, Amalie, 1985-2022
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A tapestry-weaver in her thirties embarks on her first big commission: a digitally woven tapestry for a public building. As she works, devoting all her waking hours to the commission, she draws engrossing connections between the stuff that life is made from - DNA, plant tissue, algorithms, text, and textile - and that which disrupts it - radiation, pests, entropy, and doubt. In the novel's second strand, we meet Ada Lovelace, the 1830s mathematician and pioneer of computer programming, and mythical figures such as Penelope, the faithful wife of Odysseus, who wove and unpicked a shroud to put off her 108 suitors.
Main title:
Thread ripper / Amalie Smith ; translated by Jennifer Russell.
Author:
Smith, Amalie, 1985-, authorRussell, Jennifer, translator
Imprint:
London : Lolli Editions, 2022.
Collation:
250 pages ; 24 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Danish.
ISBN:
9781919609294 (pbk)
Dewey class:
839.8138
LC class:
PT8177.29.M57
Language:
EnglishDanish
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BRN:
3133480
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