<p><b>"This is a novel so caustic it should be printed with hydrochloric acid. Berg, a Swiss writer and social activist, sprays her fury across the whole landscape of technological and economic manias that are rendering the 21st century intolerable. And Tim Mohr has done a remarkable job of translating Berg¿s hilarious, hectoring, hyperbolic prose, which isn¿t so much propulsive as relentless...No other book has so thoroughly rattled me about where we¿re headed." ¿Ron Charles, the <i>Washington Post<br></i><br>The first English translation of iconic Swiss-German novelist Sibylle Berg¿a ruthless indictment of contemporary society and a strikingly creative manifesto for rebellion.</b><br><br>Rochdale is a town in post-industrial Britain, but it could be anywhere on the digitalized, environmentally-decimated planet: a place devoid of hope, where poverty, violence, and squalor are the near-future consequences of decisions being made at this very moment. <i>Grime</i> is the dazzling multi-v