Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

Panopticon
Panopticon
Panopticon
Ebook349 pages5 hours

Panopticon

Rating: 3 out of 5 stars

3/5

()

Read preview

About this ebook

As the California borderland newspaper where they work prepares to close, three reporters are oddly given assignments to return to stories they’ve covered beforeeach one surprisingly personal. The first assignment takes reporter Aaron Klinsman and photographer Rita Valdez to an abandoned motel room where the mirrors are draped with towels, bits of black tape cover the doorknobs, and the perfect trace of a woman’s body is imprinted on the bed sheets. From this sexually charged beginningon land his family used to ownKlinsman, Rita, and their colleague, Oscar Medem understand that they are supposed to uncover something. They just don’t know what.

Following the moonlit paths their assignments reveal through the bars, factories and complex streets of Tijuana and Otay, haunted by the femicides that have spread westward from Juarez, the reporters become more intimately entwined. Tracing the images they uncover, and those they cause and leave behind, they soon realize that every move they make is under surveillance. Beyond this, it seems their private lives and even their memories are being reconstructed by others.

Panopticon is a novel of dreamlike appearances and almost supernatural memories, a world of hidden watchers that evokes the dark recognition of just how little we can protect even our most private moments. It is a shadowy, erotic novel only slightly speculative that opens into the world we all now occupy.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateOct 1, 2010
ISBN9781609530037
Panopticon

Related to Panopticon

Related ebooks

Literary Fiction For You

View More

Related articles

Reviews for Panopticon

Rating: 3.2142857142857144 out of 5 stars
3/5

7 ratings2 reviews

What did you think?

Tap to rate

Review must be at least 10 words

  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    Overall, this just wasn't my type of book. As such, I don't have much to say on it other than I found the story to be too hard to follow and the writing style not engaging. I'm sure others might find the story interesting, but I just couldn't get into it.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    On the California/Mexico border a newspaper is closing shop and three of their top reporters are given different assignments, that end up having eerie similarities. One involves a mysterious motel and a missing woman. This novel has a dream-like quality to it, involving a surveillance-minded society, where cameras document everything. There is also a connection to the “feminicide" in Ciudad, Juarez where scores of women have been murdered over the past 25-plus years. I should have loved this book. It's premise and style fit me perfectly but the trippy and unfocused, narrative kept me from fully locking in. It just missed the “mark”.

Book preview

Panopticon - David Bajo

hNabook_preview_excerpt.html|[GV ^U[c6m4(J*[/+ dyA=YVLT #8~=^>Eq8~"_zY3^q֏vH}0MSl0W)V?s쪷RLc5qWv8V8W؟kNQ cuαjaxqPãҼ;.7>>]|qme>\]c׍>2-CNw2u88+ 8TT4WGLkWC;ᇥOS.| 'kg\C]W48U質RLJtXaҥtxĀﰰ]s~a{h.CuƧ*K&s\ti!qv?i ;x20i*7\)l{2pSF]廴U1gK[W®:ŎMŗbuf8UE Srm3ocI[=}Z*axx?'>p݁/1XR^\$ot{礯)BNa'Shj=~^Ak~[D+BX.mx=2iøFpѶ(QxfA Ծe@/P!,4΁BrN'OYiq }[n;Z % @|▪Zl]R^H@;e׹aޱP}qҒg~Լ!& u4 `ƋV886G;6-3V$,©q`dZgCZ]|o2h~r};'MW& `9`AQ/x4:pB0#bh|,pG ղu79V}$2,IKOOCx$h)v\E-~KY0>haBxz\OZ,Cf"s@Y U} i@&ڿπmn2E%Brt?!^<gm.ПSl6g)+N' fKX~#]+vZzW:ĸdd~ߵ. EPu]1#"zx- ?KJ@X)Gl#ǝtA~Vn(/eA2 Rㅟ}{yUCa %]7<9n@zMr+NL.o|_ihƱiii~;9󫠆 #v\A*60m_uK`PmGbL͌4%8<5\I;9Br9< "v)D5>1ۏ& _SU=phL_8zef7=!2\Jʰ0B]--\~JBQOf`sKE$&,6̻[F=Z͠nXϱd0Ӎxf6) % '3hQa8 ` _4.IKS{"yȣpH@DJ¸3M+אy2yk9aWxE~l`^G,.?7(&#>1w0Yr\ 6(oO*Ŝ$yH48欞NBߢݠАDxWG7M7m:= ̆E @iOx$>r5cEG?TFh䬊=,.,8(HBZ 3np~k0*9Dzi8*PmDf @f8u& 7􋅴X!.Qc %i(2atТ E4onqW8V9k͞|O-N9ڄb><[8Q!0EW~d<:~ή<&9t3 ̀tE6pfS}mi;NQPVAvX|8m_?Bf2$/a֒4ʉ, Ll,@ԬG,[;qC@b EH"62`>A7hwȧ-de>ǯ1Nץ[C|wpd,Pb+8Wa,)jVnFxS;}^ej _ڮٹ]s#VudNw@і K##2\0Z~+e0kg3 VS\;Fγ]͑ @>%MQUM8ߣIQF3W_$TDVy'l.[-L[kwc$٢=ػ>\qމW./s*t0k6`ML(Q Z?Pu%ZIѺgሱ❣sD!Wdi9mX32^Wt #IV fYŋI Gzvl G„MxI[0cXZ'2XfՂDTSՎV|A <7tño]yOۘ|K48@ɀ}8I+[ɶa ”rߛ{%+V?&r)%$3:ˆR.dNǹT)OHz %Av%Ҳ݄}%C/D^).|d6DԞ6 ZCCd]gNN7QیW`W/x  R3ܟ&uׅdl$K[}_忍 " <x߾: 熫)sw!sSș[ÿt>2m-C!A/?=<ƦYٍ<-Wa~;,BL*4Z{OY̪ )ՎMH}Zv? ~K?CDL{p_s]($[t_Aԓdz6sk;&rpzt&윲a-x]9ZF_PHBNsI"-&xVyF_ij'3kQUl7O}W[IK'O 2sH5j[п^NK@sF $*XZcXs1.u}OcEtpz}fA1'%f^`:#e+e2:1?Ƌ1+#^q*2uEa|b?miN%1 s,+fqxEtG4ǓWi}dA 7~m#7b?-̘}?jzB-LɌ GSl a-1VMgz}qg!Lǀ'TWn׮5zʱhfZVS(yKxh=j!)qS\cIC>Oz]yE;l{) .<:9!|sw6q#bTY_Y򯄑'duGY ]:#>p pLM,skbYePD?~]=,^g99SNw3To_Mş' u!!}@{˘m x2(MWB];zbNb a:c5oӰR9frw\LW&/R=O.߮<Ε6NH"@*wI,V!ެd<`;0}[ =d-x<c?i=%0ZIHvNDk*2 9re*-?Y4lѭ]gV11t}e`65$*-w[i0?b=شLJ+џe4څ#8#pyg^Ι<#뜈eaE5ݲ-QGV!bd(PJ~I rWФ>Rm-d UZݘqLQP-Q3N٤L$[÷o ̾":lW3w0- *󭛠(#lK,fa/7aUG+ :G  z,6xvdyTxn''6~qMq̜G0=+$z܅`HP^Af`nGCua q-f$/dV@5؟Ueg0zd05d{ɴKH- '{eYm-צ>j1tk:&sXWƊ!7L{nte'X ;A]^>qk 'F'A孉{w\S1A3 ?co)5*\pӸaZ'czywf-HO (af|w`HpP yqJwތ{؀,O&Ov *,y6" R9ʔS!țm;K@ߡsxbd+zOJ6^Qk3c!2cEQrX& TYuvOXwc-V˖%nVn1H8&OXZZ? Ʊ%o#}0KIJ$/?}ZScq~]gMebtLKg73# HznR>nM'Ia /ԫepϥ:ݒ$*%P;L(&cˡzL+#΅=) *n̐c\z |` XڸCVXg^\x_(uđ[7VR>Ql^GΡa:^"*RZxa-4(ވ}?=}^)=dUFAZ(6q.] oMǤkc.QJz[!# }2 }Xl3b3I`6a;r GK^1s'a#{MefrUmuQ[wMJjȏRQD-Oo5m$4Lw&$\ w##K3W%^)42ʴ:12e1@lRL9O6jAc1W_YbO~llIfO7Bd]\#,^Y9$q$A9 `T.QY9srQ[^K`9Y_gz "sQFo;義,Oq!0:Om,9xq_Waʌm@&zPK*V6*LЩĶ\ذ0 WV(xV6^3U9',sW.2?O,qf zA׉;&q#h0nGUOq $ ѯ ]&{.JpP菢`+joFJs5|2|(N$w5F^C?{Z#C0(Kފک(" Q_vVI][Gc}-Q '@ _Q ûbv ӥb@Z>.ț2x(ֿdЅLJYcշ)^@,tAP-Ґ֊uW,0k6o 08܊1wb/Ūu1 ?-gx؛Y3W&1j!z.pR?g|B-ɬ*.qcâ!Dj)B~B)TChƊOF<7Lze-e栗(VR8GP ӖH,|}C7nJFnnrnyS+V=~2IV 5Z3sb2.^Ι(ɕ m@3h% 1;ehU_*,U<]vz.d2>j8;ˣ~!¥S_Id!r6`Q [l88we0w>Nr՛9tm6dOo=+ yng1E< q\ a7#CڅL#cUI"(ev~iy.-_FsީhUl̪)ÞDCyiAMY )"*szh\˲e"I'w/Xneh5obVqpGoJffO Ow= K4N"JOlZ=,Sb˪dZYi&:#̯;!yWUҥ_{Țz.|6܊e33K g?7,153`HZ!mPݫ,t}5UjE0m&X@ܖsVܣَKLf#ҹ,E TX㶂?ֳv`ܬ)/YMn!5)q87{7 :$i%Y$ڏ䰞1X?z6ɝtA{Wz9G{ }|E㜋8 8Y ݓx_j(e,\T`ځ|h͒?g-Z-54q;)1O&~Bu9¦׃u}_WeWBf5ܱXS+`$s.I~Aî&G6-#SoOqy{ vPu(y@gg}}УB苢6) zVozYk)ڻ< QHs#l`сSEjWhN鴚i,죝n"rG'0[gD:HlW`bmVZNCiEBkS?{^;GXn{gqwNÔ373S)V%@IĮEճo;0,ĘJgeKmx]W$AѝRSnɨSLpj` M_a2)_sȡ򨣫FfXw#p~c>'+MiZJ/^=̹;z vmHzmYBG\,i,9ok rj5:4*E3^l68$0 |D$CC!k0ڨϸQ聼]\}C?z俞oJKӼɌ]m;HyqDaDr~j1&(}YJ+eXh=뷾pg]v.Yټ`A<Jʥ9#DA#-e $->#WX7 gցGbSy`_wRtR[eq`M>|u-t/ _wVoJ-Bh%,!, k+>P~x&%&(Cz]Y&[,7U 瘂3(mt.,xH0_"5_ָ1tgS@O[j?k">t )MLyl*+ɩUCK)v\%bئ$7²FӑIðio4VIy9RkKv~p!N[@ƒbzlYؕm6W:&?fXI]$/VJyٿ)<ږM|Y[6[QwiOƖ VǶK}:y|tU1%?Jn) =oW7h_h Q % su7eM6@/SLTK䪟}뭰&WőBy̫,ߔxz‰
Enjoying the preview?
Page 1 of 1