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Hafiz is a twenty-five year old Muslim doing post-graduate work in genetics at the University of Beirut. He is one of a team working on the possibility of fashioning a biological weapon that would be effective against some ethnic groups and not others. This project seems to him impossible, but still highly dangerous. Lisa is a sixteen year old Israeli girl who feels threatened by the Jewish insistence on dwelling on memories of the Holocaust. She looks for a way out to a future. Maurice Rotblatt is a middle-aged ex-television-guru who comes to the Middle East and calls for a plague on all ethnic and religious belligerents. He then disappears. His friends in England wonder - is he a victim? A trickster? Or has he left hints about some hope for a future?-The story ends in September 2001. It is by the ability to look at the interweaving actions and aspirations of many different characters - in Lebanon, Israel, Turkey, England - that there might be a chance, it is suggested, for humans to be nudged out of their self-destructive genetic and environmental conditioning. Inventing God is a fascinating and highly topical new novel from a previous winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year award.
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"As an image for our times it takes some beating-Inventing God is an astonishing piece of work with the potential to shift the very way we view the world: surely a contender for the first great novel of the twenty-first century" (Observer)
"Mosley is among the most serious and brilliant of Britain's novelists of ideas" (Sunday Times)
"Well crafted-challenging throughout. It looks beyond the simplicities of politics and examines some of the deepest mainsprings of human behaviour" (Sunday Telegraph)
"Fascinating and timely" (Daily Telegraph)
"Inventing God is that rare thing among modern novels - one that will engage and enthral-a brave and provocative novel" (Spectator)
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"Mosley is among the most serious and brilliant of Britain's novelists of ideas" (Sunday Times)
"Well crafted-challenging throughout. It looks beyond the simplicities of politics and examines some of the deepest mainsprings of human behaviour" (Sunday Telegraph)
"Fascinating and timely" (Daily Telegraph)
"Inventing God is that rare thing among modern novels - one that will engage and enthral-a brave and provocative novel" (Spectator)
A highly topical new novel, set in the Middle East, from one of our most distinguished novelists.
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0099445034
- ISBN 13 9780099445036
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages304
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Hafiz is a twenty-five year old Muslim doing post-graduate work in genetics a the University of Beirut. He is one of a team working on the possibility of fashioning a biological weapon that would be effective against some ethnic groups and not others. This project seems to him impossible, but still highly dangerous. Lisa is a sixteen year old Israeli girl who feels threatened by the Jewish insistence on dwelling on memories of the Holocaust. She looks for a way out to a future. Maurice Rotblatt is a middle-aged ex-television-guru who comes to the Middle East and calls for a plague on all ethnic and religious belligerents. He then disappears. His friends in England wonder - is he a victim? A trickster? Or has he left hints about some hope for the future? The story ends in September 2001. It is by the ability to look at the interweaving actions and aspirations of many different characters - in Lebanon, Israel, Turkey, England - that there might be a chance, it is suggested, for humans to be nudged out of their self-destructive genetic and environmental conditioning. Inventing God is a fascinating book and highly topical new novel from a previous winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year Award. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR004600282
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