Anathem
Paperback, 998 pages, HarperCollins, List Price: $16.99 | purchase
Book Summary
Raz, who has lived in a monastery since childhood, away from the violent upheavals of the outside world, becomes one of a group of formerly cloistered scholars who are appointed by a higher power to avert an impending disaster.
Genres:
This book is about:
- Monasteries,
- Disasters,
- Mathematics,
- Philosophy,
- Life on other planets,
- Science fiction,
- Fiction
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