Inventing God
  • Published: 4 January 2011
  • ISBN: 9781409002574
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook

Inventing God

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A highly topical new novel, set in the Middle East, from one of our most distinguished novelists.

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.
  • Published: 4 January 2011
  • ISBN: 9781409002574
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
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About the author

Nicholas Mosley

Nicholas Mosley, born in 1923, is the author of several novels, including Accident, Impossible Object, Hopeful Monsters, The Hesperides Tree, two biographies, a travel book and a book about religion.

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Praise for Inventing God

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

One of the most interesting and gifted English novelists writing today - one of the major novelists of our era

New Statesman

'One of the most compelling writers in the English language'

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