The origin lost

"The origin lost" is the title of the penultimate book Matilde Asensi, a writer of Spanish origin and learned a lot with a fondness for novels of historical and archaeological adventure.

The protagonist of the novel is Arnau, a young little more than thirty years that has made money in the early 2000 with the boom of the Internet and e-commerce and living a double life for all is officially a famous entrepreneur of success , While the global community of hackers anarchists is known under the pseudonym "Root".

I must acknowledge the author of dealing and exhibited concepts and issues leading to a remarkable precision, which usually is far from obvious for a writer of adventure novels. It 'very interesting and intriguing central theme of the book, namely the research of people able to speak the Aymara language original and perfect is described and presented as very similar to the binary language of computing. The aspect which I think is somewhat 'questionable is that in many parts of the book exposure of facts more or less historians tend to become somewhat' heavy for an "over-erudition" by that little dell'autrice combines with the central theme that is purely imaginary and fantastic.

Finally a note of demerit certainly goes to the Italian translation of the term computer "proxy" (which in the book is the nickname of one of the hackers friends of the protagonist) is translated as "Proxi" ...

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