Lexicon: A Novel

"In the latest novel from Australian master of subversive science fiction Max Barry, we get a magical realist take on surveillance and propaganda. Informed by the Tower of Babel story in the Bible, as well as aboriginal myth, this is a strange story about a world where art and mind control are inseparable. Poets in a shadowy group called simply the Organization write personalized propaganda, controlling individuals with words. Beautifully written and funny, this is a fairy tale satire for the NSA surveillance age."