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Omega Minor Paperback – 27 Nov. 2007

by Paul Verhaeghen (Author)
3.8 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
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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 Charit?, 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?

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  1. Print length
    691 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Dalkey Archive Press
  4. Publication date
    27 Nov. 2007
  5. Dimensions
    16.05 x 4.88 x 22.81 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    1564784770
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1564784773
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this is an uncommonly intellectually stretching- and satisfying - experience' -Matt Thorne, The Independent

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Paul Verhaeghen is a Belgian novelist, writing in his native Dutch. His novels include Lichtenberg and Omega Minor. Omega Minor has been translated into German, English French, and Hungarian.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dalkey Archive Press
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ 27 Nov. 2007
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 691 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1564784770
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1564784773
  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 1.01 kg
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 16.05 x 4.88 x 22.81 cm
  • Best Sellers Rank: 2,330,662 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • Customer reviews:
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  • Mr. C. A. Lillie
    5.0 out of 5 stars READ THIS..everybody !
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 June 2008
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    Quite possibly the most memorable novel I will ever read. Although the recent genre of novels based in and around historical events seems to be flooding the literary market these days, this stands out.
    Major historical events in Modern Eurpoe are wodnerfully and eloquentally detailed by Verhaegen whislt weavign an intricate plot amongst individuals you find yourself udenrstanding very early. Fro a novel of 700 pages, each and every page was a dleight, and no task whatsover. I could pick this book up and read 50 pages a day for the rest of my life, should it be long enough.

    Beautifully written by a psychologist who understands the human condition and creates lyrics and not words, in an unforgetable book.
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  • Philosophy Student
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 June 2015
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    Very interesting novel -- very ambitious in scope, but well worth the read!
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  • Thomas Beale
    3.0 out of 5 stars A mess of mud and diamonds
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 October 2008
    There are some excellent tracts within this cauldron of a novel, including (for me at least) a convincing account of the holocaust experience from the point of view of a jewish adolescent. Events and characters around the genesis of the US atom bomb are reasonably interesting as well. But - what a mess! Nearly 700 pages long, at least 3 different narrative styles/voices. Often feels like a film script, where not knowing who 'I' is isn't a problem. I found most of the female characters more adolescent fantasy than realistic, and some of the prose comes from the same place as well. As with other recent novels, heavily in need of editing; there is probably a good 300 page book trying to get out.
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  • M. Haber
    5.0 out of 5 stars Deserves the National Book Award/ Nobel/ etc.
    Reviewed in the United States on 5 July 2008
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    I can't believe there are only two reviews for this brilliant, all-encompassing masterpiece! Instead of talking about the stories, themes and plots of this beautiful work I'll only say - not unlike Catch-22, Lolita, The Savage Detectives or any important work - anyone with an appreciation of literature MUST read this.
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  • Dr. Aviv Weinstein
    1.0 out of 5 stars A difficult book to read
    Reviewed in the United States on 3 August 2012
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    I have found the book utterly boring and tidious, despite my effort to keep on reading it I had to stop.
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  • John J. Mclennon Jr.
    3.0 out of 5 stars A Still Born Child
    Reviewed in the United States on 30 July 2008
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    Omega Minor should be substantially better than it is. Paul Verhaeghen is obviously a brilliant writer, but there are serious problems here. For my taste, there is too much pornography. I would have liked more erotica and less raunch. If you like to read about sperm spurting like a geyser, and oozing, and goozing, this is the novel for you. There is hardly a scene in which sperm doesn't play a role. In all fairness, I would say sperm is one of the major characters. The novel is way too long. Verhaeghen could add considerable life to his story simply by cutting three or four hundred gratuitous pages that slug-up the momentum. (It would be nice to see some of those sperm pages hit the waste-basket.) There are so many typos and the thing is so long that one has to wonder if it was edited at all. The story occasionally stretches one's credibility and every now and then the author intrudes himself to load the reader down with his moralizations. It doesn't happen often but is annoying when it does. For such an emotionally charged subject his story is presented without passion or pathos, much like a ryecrisp on a plate. His characters throw themselves into wild emotional contortions, but their agonies don't touch the reader, largely because the characters themselves are not sympathetic. One could hardly care what happens to them. On the positive side, Verhaeghen frequently gives the reader some beautiful prose. The passages on astronomy and scientific speculation are fascinating, and his knowledge of the holocaust is expert. This works less as a novel, I think, than a very strange essay. If, on the other hand, you like Pynchon, you might just love Omega Minor.
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