Evolution of Inanimate Objects, The: The

In the archives of Ontario's London Asylum, psychiatrist Harry Karlinsky comes across a familiar surname in the register. Could Thomas Darwin, involuntarily admitted to the Asylum as a "danger to others," be a relative of the great Charles Darwin? And what might have brought him to this place, where he died alone, a world away from home?  In this stunning factitious biography Karlinsky gives us a Nabokovian tale of Darwinian theory gone wrong. Although decisively a work of fiction, The Evolution of Inanimate Objects invites sustained uncertainty as to whether Thomas is a character of pure invention or simply a heretofore little known figure.

Harry Karlinsky was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and obtained his Masters in Neuroscience degree from the University of London, England. He currently lives and works in Vancouver where he is a Clinical Professor in the University of British Columbia’s Department of Psychiatry.