V. Av Thomas Pynchon

Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, Against the Day moves from the labour troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York; from London to Venice, to Siberia, to Mexico during the...

Oedipa Maas får en dag beskjed om at hun er utnevnt til eksekutor av dødsboet etter en tidligere elsker, en californisk stormogul i eiendomsbransjen. Oppdraget leder henne inn i en vill odyssé blant en rekke bisarre figurer, en hel verden av mislykkede...

The novel is set in California in 1984, where a group of people are struggling against political passions and the consequences of the 1960s.

It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dotcom boom and the terrible events of September 11th. Silicon Alley is a ghost town, Web 1.0 is having adolescent angst, Google has yet to IPO, Microsoft is still considered the Evil...