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The Procedure - Mulisch, Harry
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Internationally renowned novelist Harry Mulisch's "The Procedure" is a haunting and fascinating novel about two men who try to create life but fail. In the late sixteenth century, Rabbi Jehudah LAw, in order to guarantee the safety of the Jews in Prague, creates a golem by following a procedure outlined in a third-century cabalist text. Four hundred years later, Victor Werker, a Dutch biologist mourning the loss of his stillborn daughter, causes an international uproar when he creates a complex organic clay crystal that can reproduce and has a metabolism. But his unsettling discovery takes its…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
Internationally renowned novelist Harry Mulisch's "The Procedure" is a haunting and fascinating novel about two men who try to create life but fail. In the late sixteenth century, Rabbi Jehudah LAw, in order to guarantee the safety of the Jews in Prague, creates a golem by following a procedure outlined in a third-century cabalist text. Four hundred years later, Victor Werker, a Dutch biologist mourning the loss of his stillborn daughter, causes an international uproar when he creates a complex organic clay crystal that can reproduce and has a metabolism. But his unsettling discovery takes its toll as his inner and outer demons pursue him around the world, from California to Venice, Cairo, and Jerusalem.
Autorenporträt
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.