Like his great, great uncle, the early geneticist Gregor Mendel, Dr. Benedict Lambert is struggling to unlock the secrets of heredity. But Benedict's mission is particularly urgent and particularly personal, for he is afflicted with achondroplasia—he's a dwarf. He's also a man desperate for love. And when he finds it in the form of Jean—simple and shy—he stumbles upon an opportunity to correct the injustice of his own capricious genes. 
As intelligent as it is entertaining, this witty and surprisingly erotic novel reveals the beauty and drama of scientific inquiry as it informs us of the simple passions against which even the most brilliant mind is rendered powerless.

Mendel's Dwarf

Literature & Fiction

Mawer, Simon

Contemporary

Penguin??Books

Bored by her marriage with Eric, ambivalent about her children, and ridden with guilt about her aged mother, Helen Harding is at an age when memory begins its slow and pernicious invasion of the present. Unexpectedly she meets up with her estranged stepbrother Michael and finds herself precipitated back into a past that has long been shut away - a childhood haunted by the mythic figure of her father, who died in the bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, and a womanhood dominated by her conflicting love for Michael himself and her father's brutal, disturbing friend Dennis Killin. Helen's quest for the jealous god of the past is set against a shifting backdrop of England, Cyprus, and Israel. With sensitivity and perception the novel explores a woman's life and the forces that act upon it. Who is the father of Helen's daughter? What was her own mother's relationship with Killin? And above all, what really happened to her father in those tormented days when the British Mandate in Palestine drew to a bloody close?

A Jealous God

British & Irish

Andre Deutsch Ltd.

Chimera

Hamish Hamilton

A priest commissioned to examine a controversial ancient scroll struggles with his own beliefs and conflicted vows while unraveling the secrets of the supposed "Gospel of Judas." By the author of Mendel's Dward. 75,000 first printing.

The Gospel of Judas : A Novel

Little,Brown & Co

Hearing that a childhood friend has died in a tragic climbing accident, Rob Ross rushes to comfort the man's widow and finds himself reliving moments from his past, which was marked by a love triangle and a journey to the Alps. By the author of The Gospel of Judas. 40,000 first printing.

The Fall: A Novel

Little,Brown

- Simon Mawer is increasingly recognized as "a world-class novelist" (Christian Science Monitor) whose fiction appeals to readers of Ian McEwan, Peter Carey, A. S. Byatt, Michael Ondaatje et al.- A compulsively readable love story that's sure to be popular with reading groups.- Hardcover ISBN: 0-316-09780-2

Fall

Rob Ross is driving home when he hears that his childhood friend Jim Matthewson has fallen to his death in a climbing accident. Rob's decision to turn his car around and make the journey to comfort Jim's widow is the beginning of a journey into the past, back to Rob's youth before he made the pivotal choices that now come back to haunt him. Simon Mawer skillfully unveils the delicate layers of history in the lives of a group of people connected over the years by camaraderie, love, competition, and lust. In the shadow of an old love triangle lies the story of another, and as we follow the characters from London during the Blitz to the mountain ranges of the Alps and back to present-day Wales, Mawer reveals how the agonies of the past impinge upon the present. This is an intelligent, thought-provoking love story by a brilliant, masterful novelist.

Back Bay Books

Father Leo Newman is called in to decipher an ancient scroll and discovers that it appears to be a fifth gospel, which could completely change his view of the world. Minimal wear to edges of dust jacket. iv , 330 pages. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, dustjacket. 8vo.

The Gospel of Judas

Little. Brown and Company

A priest experiencing a crisis of faith and the married woman to whom he is attracted. A scroll newly discovered near Jerusalem that, if authentic, could open Christianity to a complete reinterpretation. A tragic love affair unfolding in Fascist-dominated Rome during World War II. These are the elements of a magnificent literary entertainment -- a novel that resonates with tales of love and betrayal as it deals profoundly with questions of faith and what it means to believe. It is at once a love story, a thriller, and a rich novel of ideas.

The Gospel of Judas: A Novel

Like his great-great-great uncle, the early geneticist Gregor Mendel, Dr Benedict Lambert is struggling to unlock the secrets of heredity. But for Benedict the mission is particularly urgent and personal, for his is afflicted by achondroplasia. He is a dwarf. When a chance meeting leads him to the acceptance that he craves, he begins a journey towards correcting the injustice of his own capricious genes, with devastating consequences. As intelligent as it is entertaining, this witty novel is a gripping tale of scientific intrigue and moral uncertainty.

Genre Fiction

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Mendel's Dwarf

A Jealous God

Chimera

The Gospel of Judas : A Novel

The Fall: A Novel

Fall

The Fall: A Novel

The Gospel of Judas

The Gospel of Judas: A Novel

Mendel's Dwarf