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Robin Sloan

Sourdough

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Lois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions. She codes all day and collapses at night, her human contact limited to the two brothers who run the neighborhood hole-in-the-wall from which she orders dinner every evening. Then, disaster! Visa issues. The brothers quickly close up shop. But they have one last delivery for Lois: their culture, the sourdough starter used to bake their bread. She must keep it alive, they tell her—feed it daily, play it music, and learn to bake with it.

Lois is no baker, but she could use a roommate, even if it is a needy colony of microorganisms. Soon, not only is she eating her homemade bread, but she’s also providing loaves to the General Dexterity cafeteria every day. Then the company chef urges her to take her product to the farmer’s market—and a whole new world opens up.

From Robin Sloan, the New York Times bestselling author of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, comes Sourdough, "a perfect parable for our times" (San Francisco Magazine): a delicious and funny novel about an overworked and under-socialized software engineer discovering a calling and a community as a baker.

Named One of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Southern Living.
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204 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2017
Publication year
2017
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  • Дмитрий Безугловshared an impression4 years ago
    💞Loved Up
    🌴Beach Bag Book
    🐼Fluffy

    Трогательная сказка о еде, которая хорошо работает в сцепке с текстом Кори Пайна «Живи вкалывай вкалывай сдохни»: если Пайн, кипящий от злобы, смотрит на мир недооплачиваемых программистов и пытается разломать их солнечные стереотипные представления о мире, то Слоун показывает лучащийся мир глуповатого, но ответственного менеджмента, и храбрых первооткрывателей цифрового будущего. Главная героиня оставляет изматывающий мир кодинга и погружается в мир заквасок, сыров с плесенью и живых, аналогово произведённых вкусностей. Если в вас бродят тексты левых критиков, посвящённые автоматизации и раздробленности рынка труда, неумолчный оптимизм и колониальный сюжет «Закваски» будет отзываться бурчанием в животе. Если любите сказки про отважных стартаперов и откровения, переживаемые после первого укуса свежей краюхи, то здорово проведёте время. Обескровленным классовой борьбой «Закваска» сил не даст, и лишь будет сшибать с ног запахом чужой успешности.

  • Дарья Патрушеваshared an impression4 years ago
    👍Worth reading
    🚀Unputdownable
    😄LOLZ
    🐼Fluffy

  • svetlix06853shared an impression5 years ago
    👍Worth reading
    💡Learnt A Lot
    🎯Worthwhile
    🚀Unputdownable

Quotes

  • Дмитрий Безугловhas quoted4 years ago
    Here’s a thing I believe about people my age: we are the children of Hogwarts, and more than anything, we just want to be sorted.
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    Here’s a thing I believe about people my age: we are the children of Hogwarts, and more than anything, we just want to be sorted.
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    Here’s a thing I believe about people my age: we are the children of Hogwarts, and more than anything, we just want to be sorted.

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