In his international bestseller "In Search of Klingsor, " Jorge
Volpi takes us from the Institute of Advanced Study to the heart of
Hitler's Germany, where the line between truth and lies is all but
dissolved.Mysterious, seductive, and immediately engrossing, this
startlingly accomplished thriller explores the nexus between
science and human nature and how they shaped the world in the
aftermath of World War II.
In 1940, Francis Bacon, a brilliant young American physicist, is
invited to join the prestigious institute at Princeton, the world's
foremost physics research facility. But a series of personal
indiscretions forces him to accept a different, more sinister,
assignment: uncover "Klingsor," Hitler's top adviser on the
scientific work in the Third Reich, including the race to create
the first atomic bomb.
Bacon's efforts to expose the truth lead him to Gustav Links, a
survivor of the attempted coup against Hitler. With Link's help, he
continues researching postwar Germany -- in an era when a secret
was really a secret and a lie wasn't necessarily a sin -- and falls
into a complicated relationship with an alluring woman. His search
for Klingsor, an ominous and seemingly omnicient adversary, is part
mystery, part psychological puzzle, part witty intellectual game.
"In Search of Klingsor" places real people in speculative
historical fiction, combining the ingenuity of a scientific
investigation with the suspense of a great espionage novel.
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