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Gods Without Men
โ Scribed by Hari Kunzru
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Alfred A. Knopf
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 264 KB
- Edition
- 1st U.S. ed
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
In the desert, you see, there is everything and nothing . . . It is God without men.
--Honore de Balzac, Une passion dans le d esert, 1830
Jaz and Lisa Matharu are plunged into a surreal public hell after their son, Raj, vanishes during a family vacation in the California desert. However, the Mojave is a place of strange power, and before Raj reappears inexplicably unharmed--but not unchanged--the fate of this young family will intersect with that of many others, echoing the stories of all those who have traveled before them.
Driven by the energy and cunning of Coyote, the mythic, shape-shifting trickster, Gods Without Men is full of big ideas, but centered on flesh-and-blood characters who converge at an odd, remote town in the shadow of a rock formation called the Pinnacles. Viscerally gripping and intellectually engaging, it is, above all, a heartfelt exploration of the search for pattern and meaning in a chaotic...
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