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Through a dialogue between two lovers, a young physicist in England and an anthropologist in Germany, Nicholas Mosely retells the history of Europe of the twenties and thirties. The destructive power and attraction of fascism and communism is unveiled and set against the changing relationship between man and science in the time of atomic power. Their story weaves together disparate strands of landscape to take the reader on a journey through Spain, London, Soviet Russia, North Africa and middle Europe. Simultaneously taking us through a new intellectual landscape from the new scenes of physics, biology, anthropology and psychology. 'A novel of enormous ambition, a book that takes on just about every social movement, every significant political event of our time - a virtual intellectual anthology of the 20th century, in fictional form' - Daniel Stern, "New York Times" Book Review.
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"As well as being the ultimate novel of ideas, it is a tremendously moving love story. It should be studied in schools. The `hopeful monsters' of the title are those creatures (such as salamanders) that only survive the supposedly relentless processes of evolution by making leaps that buck the evolutionary trend. But we are also monsters who, in spite of the waste of our wraths and sorrows, have something to be hopeful about so long as we retain our capacity to love."
--Readers Digest, August 2009
About the Author
Nicholas Mosely was born in London in 1923 and educated at Eton and Oxford. He served in Italy during World War II, and published his first novel, Spaces of the Dark, in 1951. He has since published sixteen works of fiction, including the novels Accident, Impossible Object, and Hopeful Monsters, winner of the 1990 Whitbread Award. Mosely is also the author of several works of non fiction, most notably the authobiography Efforts at Truth and a biography of his father, Sir Oswald Mosely, entitled Rules of the Game/Beyond the Pale.
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- PublisherEland Publishing Ltd
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1906011117
- ISBN 13 9781906011116
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages604
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