Omega Minor alert

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Berlin, Spring of 1995. While a group of neo-Nazis are preparing an 
anniversary bash of disastrous proportions, an old physics professor returns 
to Potsdam to atone for his sins, an Italian postdoc designs an experiment 
that will determine the fate of the universe, and, in a room at Le Charité, 
a Holocaust survivor tells his tale to the willing ear of a young 
psychologist. Who is that talking cat, why do ghosts of SS soldiers roam the 
city, and what is Speer’s favorite actress up to?

Moving back and forth between the main stages of the past century—Berlin 
united and divided, Boston, Los Alamos, Auschwitz—Omega Minor is a novel of 
big ideas, a tale of survival of the soul cast in a whirlwind plot that is 
in turns smart, inquisitive, funny, violent, nutty, pornographic, moving, 
deeply compassionate, and profoundly moral. Or not.

Do scars ever heal? Can history be transcended? And will love, for once, 
save the world? Welcome to Omega Minor, where nothing is ever what it seems 
and nothing ever ends.

About the Author
Omega Minor is Paul Verhaeghen’s second novel, the first to be translated 
into English from his native Dutch. In 2006, the Flemish Government awarded 
it their Culture Award as the best work of Flemish fiction published between 
2003 and 2005; the book also received the Dutch Bordwijk Award for Fiction. 
Verhaeghen has donated the money associated with these awards to civil and 
human rights organizations. Verhaeghen is also a cognitive psychologist; he 
is currently an associate professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology 
in Atlanta.

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