Genesis by Bernard Beckett
Anax is about to face her examination for the Academy, the institution which safeguards her society. The subject is close to her heart: Adam, a man whose struggle transformed the course of her country. But the examination by the panel will reveal new twists to Adam's history. Twists that will undermine Anax's assumptions about her country and who she is. But why is the Academy allowing Anax to open up the enigma at its heart? All young people will identify with Anax as she faces the most important examination of her life; she is on the brink of her future and discovering a new world. Beckett unlocks this beautifully wrought story about the human soul and artificial intelligence in an ingenious and devastating denouement.
'Highly original, this remarkable thriller fuses intricate ideas with real emotion and suspenseIt gripped me like a vice' Jonathan Stroud.
Bernard Beckett, born in 1967, is a high school teacher based in Wellington, New Zealand, where he teaches Drama, Mathematics and English. Genesis was written while he was on a Royal Society genetics research fellowship investigating DNA mutations. Genesis won the Young Adult Fiction category of the New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2007 and the 2007 Esther Glen award.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781847247292 |
| ISBN 10 | 1847247296 |
| Title | Genesis |
| Author | Bernard Beckett |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Hachette Children's Group |
| Year published | 2009-05-07 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Prizes | Winner of LIANZA Children's Book Awards: Esther Glen Medal for Junior Fiction 2007, Winner of New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children & Young Adults: Young Adult Fiction 2007 |
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