Diabolically funny and subversively philosophical, Italian novelist
Giacomo Sartori's I am God is the diary of the Almighty's existential
crisis that ensues when he falls in love with a human.
I am God. Have been forever, will be forever. Forever, mind you, with
the razor-sharp glint of a diamond, and without any counterpart in the
languages of men. So begins God's diary of the existential crisis that
ensues when, inexplicably, he falls in love with a human. And not just
any human, but a geneticist and fanatical atheist who's certain she can
improve upon the magnificent creation she doesn't even give him the
credit for. It's frustrating, for a god.
God has infinitely bigger things to occupy his celestial attentions. Yet
he can't tear his eyes (so to speak) from the geneticist who's
unsettlingly avid when it comes to science, sex, and Sicilian cannoli.
Whatever happens, he must safeguard his transcendental dignity. So he
watches--disinterestedly, of course--as the handsome climatologist who
has his sights set on her keeps having strange accidents. And as the
lanky geneticist becomes hell-bent on infiltrating the Vatican's secret
files, for reasons of her own....
A sly critique of the hypocrisy and hubris that underlie faith in
religion, science, and macho careerism, I Am God takes us on a
hilarious and provocative romp through the Big Questions with the
universe's supreme storyteller.
