Pierre Ducrozet contemplates the challenges of modernity with a crucial sense of suspense and staging, a worthy successor of Ballard and DeLillo.

Miraculously spared during the kidnapping and massacre of 43 men from Iguala on the night of September 26, 2014, young Álvaro, who has nothing left to lose, flees Mexico in a race against fate, only to wind up in the clutches of an adept of transhumanism, a wonder boy from Silicon Valley. A sprawling exploration of the networks that irrigate and reformulate modern life, The Invention of Bodies subtly echoes reality in order to better force us to look it in the face.