Shabbat Reading: Harry Mulisch's The Discovery of Heaven

#whatireadovershabbat Harry Mulisch's The Discovery of Heaven, translated by Paul Vincent (1992; Viking Penguin, 1996)

Imagine The Da Vinci Code as a novel of ideas, borrowing from Heidegger and Gershom Scholem, weaving together the Holocaust, modern physics, and the history of architecture, bound up in a poignant, laugh-out-loud narrative, so warrantedly providential it would make Henry Fielding weep with envy. That's what you'll discover in The Discovery of Heaven.