Inventing God

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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 oil memories of the Holocaust. She looks for away 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 and explores the interweaving actions and aspirations of many different characters — in Lebanon, Israel, Turkey and England.
'Well crafted challenging throughout. It looks beyond... Tovább

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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 oil memories of the Holocaust. She looks for away 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 and explores the interweaving actions and aspirations of many different characters — in Lebanon, Israel, Turkey and England.
'Well crafted challenging throughout. It looks beyond the simplicities of politics and examines some of the deepest mainsprings of human behaviour' Sunday Telegraph
'One of the most compelling writers in the
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'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
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