{"product_id":"9781472154033-trinity","title":"Trinity","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn the vein of Coetzee's \u003ci\u003eSummertime\u003c\/i\u003e or W.G. Sebald's \u003ci\u003eThe Emigrants\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTrinity \u003c\/i\u003erevisits the life of scientist Robert Oppenheimer as narrated by seven fictional characters who claim to have known him.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Brilliant . Hall has shaped a richly imagined, tremendously moving fictional work. Its genius is not to explain but to \u003ci\u003eembody\u003c\/i\u003e the science and politics that shaped Oppenheimer's life .The resulting quantum portrait feels both true and dazzlingly unfamiliar' \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJ. Robert Oppenheimer - the father of the atomic bomb - was a brilliant scientist, a champion of liberal causes, and a complex and often contradictory character. In Louisa Hall's kaleidoscopic novel, seven fictional characters bear witness to his life. From a secret service agent who tailed him in San Francisco, to the young lover of a colleague in Los Alamos, to a woman fleeing McCarthyism who knew him on St. John, as these men and women fall into the orbit of a brilliant but mercurial mind at work, all consider his complicated legacy while also uncovering deep and often unsettling truths about their own lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eTrinity\u003c\/i\u003e, Louisa Hall has crafted an explosive story about what it means to truly know someone, and about the secrets we keep from the world and from ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56451496903030,"sku":"9781472154033","price":4.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_28244961.jpg?v=1760462757","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781472154033-trinity","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}