Inventing God by Nicholas Mosley
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.
Nicholas Mosley, born in 1923, is the author of thirteen novels, including Accident, Impossible Object, Hopeful Monsters, The Hesperides Tree, two biographies, a travel book and a book about religion. He lives in London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780436210112 |
| ISBN 10 | 0436210118 |
| Title | Inventing God |
| Author | Nicholas Mosley |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2003-01-02 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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