Echoes of the Mind: The Cost of Peace - Couverture souple

Logo, Azariah

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798268892529

Editeur : Independently published, 2025

Synopsis

What if the peace you crave demands the truth you fear?

In a near-future South Africa shaped by unrest, inequality, and the lingering scars of violence, a revolutionary technology offers hope: ECHO — the Emotive Cognitive Harmonization Operator. Designed to “recontextualize” trauma, it promises lasting serenity by reframing painful memories. At NeuroVana, peace is no longer a journey. It’s a procedure.

Amahle Maseko, a teacher and survivor of state brutality, is one of the first to undergo the treatment. What begins as a chance to quiet the alarms of her past becomes something far more profound — and unsettling. In the wake of her “re-edit,” Amahle feels lighter, freer, at peace… but something essential has shifted, and fragments of the truth she once lived have begun to fade.

Years later, her daughter Lira, a young journalist, begins to sense fractures in the stories she inherited. A missing reflection in a cherished photograph. A voice in her dreams insisting she “wasn’t there.” A growing suspicion that her mother’s memories — and perhaps her own — have been rewritten. As Lira follows the trail back to NeuroVana, she uncovers a system built not only to heal, but to control — one where the boundary between therapy and manipulation blurs.

Across cities and memoryscapes, from Johannesburg’s humming clinics to Cape Town’s misted mountains, Echoes of the Mind traces a haunting quest for truth in a world seduced by comfort. It is a story of mothers and daughters, of technology and trust, of what remains when our pain is edited away.

With poetic precision and emotional intensity, Azariah Logo crafts a psychological odyssey through grief, love, and the politics of forgetting. As Lira pieces together the echoes left behind, she must decide:
Is peace still peace if it’s built on illusion?
And what, in the end, is the true cost of silence?

A deeply human meditation on memory, identity, and the moral price of engineered calm, Echoes of the Mind invites readers to confront their own relationship to truth — and the stories we choose to keep.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798268892529
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 565
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