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Hailed by the New Yorker as "furious, tender, and wittily erudite," Mendel's Dwarf is a novel that explores the brave new world of genetic science and the depths of the human heart. Like his great, great uncle, the early geneticist Gregor Mendel, Dr. Benedict Lambert is struggling to... read more
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- Jean Piercey: Add a description of this character.
- Gregor Mendel
- Benedict Lambert
- Hugo Miller
- Frau Rotwang
- Charles Darwin
- Beatrice
- Benjamin
- Uncle Harry
- Bratranek
- Doctor Lambert
- Johann
- Olga
- Magda
- Adam
- Father Gregor
- Great-great-great-uncle Gregor
- Gottlieb
- Pater Gregor
- Veronika
- Theresia
- Bateson
- Mrs. Downstream
- Lysenko
- Mr. Perkins
- Anton
- Heike
- Lynn
- Ben Lambert
- Dinah
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"Doctor Benedict Lambert, the celebrated Benedict Lambert, the diminutive Benedict Lambert, the courageous Benedict Lambert (adjectives skating carefully around the essence of it all) stands to address the members of the Mendel Symposium."
Authors & Contributors edit
- Simon Mawer (Author)
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 823.914
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