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Book SynopsisIn the vein of Coetzee's Summertime or W.G. Sebald's The Emigrants, Trinity revisits the life of scientist Robert Oppenheimer as narrated by seven fictional characters who claim to have known him.Trade Review[An]
elegant novel . . . It leaves you with the dazed feeling that trying to understand a person, to really know them, is an impossible task. * The Observer magazine *
History, Hall insists, happens on the human scale and the narratives in which we find ourselves caught up often blind us to larger truths. This is
an intelligent, serious novel saved from ponderousness by
an abundance of sharp-edged details and the intensity of its characters need to speak * Daily Mail *
Louisa Hall understands the words we don't write can be just as important as the ones we do . . . Few words go to waste in her new book,
Trinity,
a brilliant imagining of how the details omitted from one notorious man's story might define him more fully than the broad strokes we already know . . .
Trinity sounds a wake-up call to those who have failed to ease the threat of planetary destruction . . .
Oppenheimer changed course in his own life - and through Hall's imagined reading of his mind, she shows us that we still can too * Time *
Louisa Hall has created a splintered and
intriguing portrait of this brilliant and conflicted man . . . Hall's
explosive fragmentation of Oppenheimer's life makes for
an original book, a novel of the unseen and finally, the unknowable * Erica Wagner, Financial Times *
Triumphant . . .
Compelling . . . With
beautiful specificity and nuance, Hall interrogates such major issues as this in scientific discovery and breaching the chasm between public and private selves * Vanity Fair *
