num_pages: 240
description: Internationally renowned novelist Harry Mulisch's The Procedure is a haunting and fascinating novel about two men who try to create life but fail. In the late sixteenth century, Rabbi Jehudah Löw, in order to guarantee the safety of the Jews in Prague, creates a golem by following a procedure outlined in a third-century cabalist text. Four hundred years later, Victor Werker, a Dutch biologist mourning the loss of his stillborn daughter, causes an international uproar when he creates a complex organic clay crystal that can reproduce and has a metabolism. But his unsettling discovery takes its toll as his inner and outer demons pursue him around the world, from California to Venice, Cairo, and Jerusalem.
language: English
title: The Procedure
titlecomplete: The Procedure
genres: School, Novels, Drama, Literature, Roman, Classics, Mystery, Fiction, Contemporary, Dutch Literature
ratings_count: 1546
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Libris Literatuurprijs
publisher: Penguin Books