Synopses & Reviews
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"Mosley's dialogue is a deliciously dotty exercise in existential inquiry, reading at times like a poker-faced collaboration between Samuel Beckett and Gracie Allen." Michael Upchurch, Seattle Times
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"Mosley is that rare bird: an English writer whose imagination is genuinely inspired by intellectual conundrums." Robert Nye, Guardian
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"One of the most compelling writers in the English language today." Joyce Carol Oates
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"Erudition plus a tense religious/political backdropthe Middle East, just pre-9-11and a missing professor with a secret that may advance biological warfare to its hideous genocidal conclusion make Inventing God a learned, engrossing read.
walks the line between depressing reality and a seductive dream state in which every surface conceals a trap." Heidi Julavits, Village Voice
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"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." Martin Bright, The Observer
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"challenging, prophetic, and at times revelatory....Mosley also has a hypnotic habit of according his characters little inquisitive asides that can deteriorate into irritating hiccups of self-consciousness. On the other hand, there are moments such as the astounding convergence of characters and events that occur at the conclusion that could be described as divine." Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix
Synopsis
Set amid the current tension and violence of the Middle East, Whitbread Award-winning Nicholas Mosley's new novel features over a half-dozen characters searching for a way to quell the self destructive impulses of society.
As the novel develops, the actions and aspirations of these characterswhich include a Muslim student working on the most deadly of biological weapons, a young Israeli girl trapped in a temple's ruins, and an eccentric ex-guru who has mysteriously disappearedcreate a textual and philosophical pattern illustrating the role chance and coincidence play in our world.
In the vein of Hopeful Monsters and The Hesperides Tree, Mosley mixes science, philosophy and contemporary politics around the question of how individual actions can influence the world.