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A review by kevin_shepherd
Mendel's Dwarf by Simon Mawer
5.0
“...an extraordinary thing about fiction is that it may reveal truths that a pursuit of facts can never unearth.” ~Simon Mawer, 1998
A witty, philosophical panegyric to the genius of Gregor Mendel. This is ‘Beauty and the Beast’ for the rest of us: we of the royal order of rationalists and science geeks. Mawer writes with the heart of a novelist and the mind of a geneticist. His detailed accounting of Mendel’s experiments will no doubt dissuade some potential readers, but there’s nothing here that an inquisitive layperson cannot comprehend - and learning, after all, is half the fun!
A witty, philosophical panegyric to the genius of Gregor Mendel. This is ‘Beauty and the Beast’ for the rest of us: we of the royal order of rationalists and science geeks. Mawer writes with the heart of a novelist and the mind of a geneticist. His detailed accounting of Mendel’s experiments will no doubt dissuade some potential readers, but there’s nothing here that an inquisitive layperson cannot comprehend - and learning, after all, is half the fun!