The Compensation BureauAuthor :
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Published : Tuesday 14 September 2021
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â?oI have created for each of you a fate, one tailored specifically for your needs and desires. Each of you has a defining momentâ?"not before, not afterâ?"when a wrong turn or decision led to the disastrous outcome that you and I mourn. To isolate that malignant moment is an exacting, exhaustive process, which only the most well-trained and competent professionals, armed with the most sophisticated of predictive models and processing power, can accomplish. You can put your trust in me, as you would in an expert surgeon, a surgeon of the soul.â??On a distant planet overlooking Earth, the nameless protagonist ofA The Compensation BureauA is one of a team of Actuaries at work on the innovative Lazarus Project. Conceived in response to the shocking violence observed in humankind, the project identifies people who have wrongfully died at the hands of othersâ?"whether victims of war, hate crimes, or random brutalityâ?"and attempts to compensate for the cruelty and pain they faced in life and death. But balancing the accounts for the sufferings and wrongdoings of humanity proves hardly a clinical exercise. The Actuary soon finds himself personally invested in the projectâ?Ts mission, and the goals of the project itself are complicated as the fate of Earthâ?Ts inhabitants becomes more uncertain.A The Compensation BureauA explores the power of individual and collective action, from a writer hailed byA The Washington PostA as â?oa world-novelist of the first category.â??
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