Book Of Numbers: A Novel

"Describing Joshua Cohen’s sprawling, comic, tragic new novel is not easy. I’m tempted to use an old joke, “It’s about 600 pages,” but Cohen beat me to it. He actually uses that line in the novel. Book Of Numbers is about a digital-age superstar, the founder of a Google-like super-search engine called Tetration. It’s also about the Holocaust, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Arabs, government surveillance of email, writers, their editors, agents and parents; also nonparents, estranged spouses, and I could go on. I read the book in one very intense week, and I had a lot of fun in the process."