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Distortion by Gautam Malkani review – truth in the digital age

The Londonstani author’s latest novel features a student with multiple online identities

Ever get the feeling your search engine knows your question – and its answer – before you’ve started to type? Student and serial liar Dillon Deckardas knows just how you feel, and so do his alter egos Dylan (who runs a tech startup) and Dhilan (who cares for his ill mother).

Deckardas’s multiple online profiles, each with their own passwords and conversational registers, are an attempt to control a life adrift. He’s always on the move, downing Red Bull, spinning stories and trying to second-guess the world. When two men start following him, asking questions about his startup, Deckardas’s millennial tremors coalesce into a frantic quest for something real.

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from Culture | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2mVuxUH

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