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The Taster
by Geneviève Billette, translated
by Bobby Theodore
“…magnificent things are
howling beneath my feet…. Frescoes, harmonies, verbs…. All the art
that once illuminated the tower still wails, even after being buried
alive…. One day… boom! All that art is going to escape. And it’s
going to climb the tower, and unleash a storm of light! Love will shine
furiously!” —SASHA
At fifteen, Nils is a sensorial
genius. Endowed with overdeveloped taste buds, he becomes a microchip
taster for O.D.B. Enterprises. The taste of technology allows him to
forget the fearsome flavour of art he bit into as a child. In this world,
no trace of humanity is tolerated and all works of art have long since
been banished to a sealed vault. But Sasha, their elderly keeper, intends
to end this general amnesia. He pushes Nils to discover the taste of
love, hoping to breach the hearts and minds that have become hardened
to life, its violence, and excess.
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