Stylish and camera-obsessed, Naomi and Nathan thrive on the yellow journalism of the social-media age. Naomi finds herself drawn to the headlines surrounding a famous couple, Celestine and Aristide Arosteguy, Marxist philosophers and sexual libertines. Celestine has been found dead, and Aristide has disappeared amid suspicions of killing her and consuming parts of her body. Nathan, meanwhile, is in Budapest photographing the controversial work of an unlicensed surgeon named Zoltan Molnar, once sought by Interpol for organ trafficking. After sleeping with one of Molnar's patients. Nathan contracts a rare STD called Roiphe's disease and travels to Toronto, determined to meet the man who discovered it. These parallel narratives become entwined in a gripping, dreamlike plot that involves geppolitics, 3-D printing, North Korea, the Cannes Film Festival, cancer, and in an incredible number of varieties, sex.
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