The Discovery of Heaven - Hardcover

Mulisch, Harry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670856681 ISBN 13: 9780670856688

Publisher: Viking Adult, 1996

Synopsis

In a philosophical novel, two friends--a cynical, cerebral blue blood obsessed by the future Onno Quist and the hedonistic astronomer haunted by the past Max Delius--are caught up in an angelic emissary' plan to clone one crucial person by the year 2000. 15,000 first printing.

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Review:

Dutch novelist Harry Mulisch has created an epic tale of love, friendship, and divine intervention in this cerebral story of heavenly influence. On earth, the novel revolves around the friendship of a brilliant, charismatic astronomer and a talented linguist born on the same day. The two men also happen to share a lover, a woman of simple beauty who is a gifted cellist. These relationships, both intellectual and intimate, produce several intriguing conversations about science, art, and theology, and a child of uncertain paternity. The child's birth is closely followed by a number of mysterious accidents, spirited affairs, untimely deaths, and other acts that reveal the influence of higher powers. Quinten, the star-fated child, has a mission from on high to return the covenant God made with man before he was led astray by science and the dark influence of the devil. An engrossing, and at times comic, story of theology and science, angels, and earthly desires, is cleverly told in this hugely ambitious novel.

About the Author:

Harry Mulisch is author of the international bestsellers The Assault, The Discovery of Heaven, and The Procedure, as well as other novels, short stories, essays, poetry, plays, and philosophical works.

Paul Vincent lives in London and translated Harry Mulisch's previous two novels.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Adult
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0670856681
• ISBN 13: 9780670856688
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 752