{"product_id":"the-message-to-the-planet-9780099583288","title":"The Message To The Planet","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor years, Alfred Ludens has pursued mathematician and philosopher Marcus Vallar in the belief that he possesses a profound metaphysical formula, a missing link of great significance to mankind. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLuden''s friends are more sceptical. Jack Sheerwater, painter, thinks Marcus is crazy. Gildas herne, ex-preist, thinks he is evil. Patrick Fenman, poet, is dying because he thinks Marcus has cursed him. Marcus has disappeared and must be found. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut is he a genius, a hero struggling at the bounds of human knowledge?  Is he seeking God, or is he just another victim of the Holocaust, which casts its shadow upon him and upon Ludens, both of them Jewish? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCan human thinking discover the foundations of human consciousness? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIris Murdoch''s endlessly inventive imagination has touched a fundamental question of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe was a brilliantly clever woman -- Dame Judi Dench\u003cbr\u003eThere is no doubt in my mind that Iris Murdoch is one of the most important novelists now writing in English...The power of her imaginative vision, her intelligence and her awareness and revelation of human truth are quite remarkable * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eI love the novels of Iris Murdoch -- Philippa Gregory\u003cbr\u003eMiss Murdoch is blessedly clever without any of the aridity which, for some reason, that word is supposed to imply -- Philip Toynbee\u003cbr\u003eIris Murdoch has imposed her alternative world on us as surely as Christopher Columbus or Graham Greene * Sunday Times *","brand":"Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51138093580631,"sku":"9780099583288","price":16.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780099583288.jpg?v=1751917948","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-message-to-the-planet-9780099583288","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}