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"A brilliant debut, ambitious with its ideas, extraordinary in their syntheses and execution, and its stylish prose lit up everywhere by a piercing intelligence." - Neel Mukherjee"Square Wave is, above all, just excellent. Mark de Silva's prose is simultaneously uncompromising and unassailable. The resulting work is kinetic with an almost wistful erudition that relentlessly but organically plumbs the intersections between art, politics, and our baser human qualities. Ultimately, the novel's defiance of easy categorization or explication charges the story with a compelling mental resonance that somehow feels instructive." - Sergio De La PavaCarl Stagg, a writer researching imperial power struggles in 17th century Sri Lanka, ekes out a living as a watchman in a factionalized America where confidence in democracy has eroded.
About the Author
Mark de Silva is the author of the novels "Square Wave" (Two Dollar Radio, 2016) and "The Logos" (Clash Books [US] and Splice [UK], 2021) , as well as the essay collection "Points of Attack" (Clash Books, 2020) . He holds degrees in philosophy from Brown (AB) and Cambridge (PhD) . After six years on the editorial staff of the New York Times, first with its opinion pages and then with its Sunday magazine, he is now the fiction editor of 3:AM Magazine.
