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Praise for Berlin:
"Mirolla . . . is a teller of tales that only the tautest of prose could relate with cohesion and beauty. This book will thrill the mind."—CrimeSpree
"Intriguing, passionate, sad, hilarious. Mirolla is a master storyteller."—Toronto Sun
"Mirolla's book excels."—Rain Taxi
Mussolini clones that won't stay dead. The power to re-create others—forever. Memory and identity are no longer unique. Trapped inside the cloning facility at a time when humans are undergoing their final death rattle on a prion-infected earth, Fausto struggles to re-create the world he once knew. Or did he ever know it?
- Sales Rank: #3722860 in eBooks
- Published on: 2010-11-01
- Released on: 2010-11-01
- Format: Kindle eBook
From Publishers Weekly
Canadian poet and author Mirolla (Berlin) mixes theology, cloning, and Beckettlike absurdist alienation in this odd novel. In the near future, disease wiped out almost all nonhuman life larger than insects. A few cloned specimens live on in a superscience terrarium, which Fausto Contadino visited as a child in 2025 and where he becomes trapped as an adult many years later. Like his namesake, Fausto is offered power over life and romance with the woman created just for him, and is preoccupied with the ideas of happiness in the moment versus the passing of time. Mirolla's fractured narrative, switching among the first- and third-person perspectives of multiple Faustos, parallels the division between mind and body, between technology and nature, and between what we can do and what we should do. (Dec.)
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About the Author
Born in Italy, Michael Mirolla is a Montreal-Toronto novelist, short story writer, poet and playwright. His publications include the novels Berlin and The Boarder; two short story collections, The Formal Logic of Emotion and Hothouse Loves & Other Tales; a bilingual Italian-English poetry collection, Interstellar Distances/Distanze Interstellari; and the poetry collection Light and Time. His writing has received many awards in Canada. He is a frequent writer and reviewer for a number of newspapers and magazines, including Accenti, the Montreal Gazette, Halifax Daily News, Toronto Star, and Calgary Herald.
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A chatty absurdist postapocalyptic thriller
By D. Cloyce Smith
Michael Mirolla's previous outing, "Berlin," is one of my favorite novels from the past decade, an unjustly overlooked opus sui generis that calls to mind the quirkiness of numerous authors (Kafka, Calvino, the recent works of Laird Hunt) without imitating any of them. In his follow-up, "The Facility," Mirolla again blends numerous influences, including the trippy absurdity of Kurt Vonnegut and the paranoid claustrophobia of Philip K. Dick, in a postapocalyptic plot featuring the genetic remnants of the human race trapped inside a cloning facility.
The novel opens with the young Fausto and his more-than-slightly demented grandfather secretly visiting this biosphere, with its climatically controlled rooms designed to preserve various animal and plant species. And then one day the old man executes a stunning, violent action that alters Fausto's fate--one that will eventually seal him inside the facility, undergoing a cyclical purgatory of death and resurrection, while the rest of the world withers away. Trapped with him are the clones of Mussolini, Rachele (Il Duce's wife), and Claretta (his mistress). Keeping the facility tidy are the Scavengers, some nondescript robotic vacuum cleaners that magically appear and gobble up the mess whenever one of the clones (animal or human) inconveniently splatters. A handful of other guests stroll onto the stage when these survivors of humanity happen upon stray genetic traces around the site.
It's a zany, preposterous plot, and Mirolla is an author unafraid to experiment. I suspect that he aimed to create a madcap universe a la Douglas Adams, a satirical metaphysical soap opera. But what trips up a potentially clever picaresque is the gabby banter that is passed off as dialogue--and, unfortunately, there's an awful lot of it. Mussolini's paramours speak like they could be auditioning for a reality show on Bravo. "Oh you men. Everything has to be so apocalyptic for you. So dramatic. Otherwise, it doesn't mean anything. Give me the quiet day-to-day any time. Nursing my babies; preparing dinner," and so on and so on. Likewise, it's just excruciatingly unfunny when one of Mussolini clones giggles, "See, I remember. I was a soldier once. A long time ago. I even fought in some war somewhere. It's like riding a bike." (Is this guy Benito Mussolini of the Partito Nazionale Fascista--or Eric Stratton of Delta Tau Chi?)
And all this talk, talk, talk is in italics. I believe this is intended as a Faulkneresque touch suggesting literary quality, but instead it serves to underscore just how chatty and shallow these exchanges are. With each chapter the dialogue seems to get more loquacious and ridiculous, as if the genetic code for linguistic ability corrodes with each successive generation of clones. The remnants of the human race are constantly squabbling and making amends, and after one particularly garrulous group hug, a ghostly Fausto shouts, "I won't let this become a scene from a Shakespearean comedy"--but, really, there's absolutely no danger of that ever happening.
When the ending finally rolls around, Mirolla's narrative becomes simultaneously Emersonian and saccharine--and the result is a bland confection. ("The thought merges. Separates again. Pulls gravity. Twists time into toffee swirls. Into peanut butter and jelly twirls.") Although the Scavengers don't transform themselves into Oompa Loompas, and while there is no Willa Wonka (much less a Wizard behind the curtain--or is there?), what happens to the facility and its inhabitants is entirely predictable and cartoonish.
All in all, this is a disappointing successor to "Berlin," which I urge readers to check out instead.
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The Facility is a fascinating science fiction novel about cloning.
By Robert G Yokoyama
The Facility is a futuristic science fiction novel about cloning. The setting is the mid twenty first century. There are no wild animals roaming the earth, but with the right DNA anything can be cloned. The main character is a man named Fausto. He gets trapped in the facility and tries to get out of it. This is the science fiction novel I have ever read that has Mussolini as a clone. It is interesting to read how Mussolini is both an ally and adversary to Fausto in the novel.
Mirolla describes many different animals in the novel. His vivid descriptions would be one of the strongest aspects of the novel. There is a snow leopard, a lizard with fangs and a horned white horse. He also describes many different settings within the facility. He describes a rain forest, a polar environment and a jungle to name a few. Mirolla makes these setting sound so adventurous.
The subject of cloning human beings is explored in this novel. Fausto clones certain human beings that he loves because he is lonely. I never thought cloning could have negative results for people, but these possiblities are explored in the book as well. The negative aspects of cloning make this book very thought provoking.
Mirolla includes some Italian words and phrases in this book. I learned the phrase andiamo ragazza. This means hurry up young man. Mirolla sparks my interest in the Italian language with this book. The Facility is a very entertaining science fiction novel.
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