One of the publishing sensations of recent years, garnering critical acclaim and rights sales in five countries, 'The Book Of Kings', a novel that harnesses myth, history, and philosophy to chronicle Europe's helpless drift towards Nazism, established James Thackara as a novelist of extraordinary range and vision.
'America's Children' is James Thackara's first novel, and it tells the story of J Robert Oppenheimer - in moral terms our Faust, our Prometheus - whose life is the perfect symbol of man's enlightened conquest of nature, his crisis of guilt, and his struggle for responsibility.
A novel for our age, 'America's Children' is a sublime and truly American story of the theft of atomic fire, the agonies of political and moral conscience, and the future of our planet in a nuclear world.
