The procedure
By: Harry Mulisch ; translated by Paul Vincent
Contributors: Vincent, Paul (Paul F.)
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780670910243; 9780142001271
Subjects: Religion and science; Biologists; Fiction; Golem; Medical ethics
Work titles: Procedure
Description: A sixteenth-century rabbi creates a golem to protect the Jews of prague. Four hundred years later, a Dutch biologist creates an organic clay crystal that can reproduce itself and has a metabolism.