Singularitäten

A multi-layered cat-and-mouse game, a novel about nostalgia, life, death and quantum theory.Felix Mordaunt, who has just been released from prison, drives up at his childhood home. But neither the fancy car nor the name he introduces himself with really belong to him. A new family lives in the draughty old manor house: the Godleys, descendants of the late world-famous scientist Adam Godley, whose theory of existence threw the universe into chaos. Felix now has to deal with the headstrong Godley family and their nervous housekeeper. An outrageous accusation looms: was the late Adam Godley really the originator of the theory of existence, or was he a fraud? With sparkling intelligence and rapid wit, John Banville revives some of the most memorable characters in his work in a novel that is as mischievous as it is brilliantly conceived.