Giacomo Sartori Bücher

In Giacomo Sartoris Roman Göttliches Tagebuch führt Gott Tagebuch über eine Existenzkrise, in die er unerklärlicherweise aus Liebe zu einem Menschen gerät. Nicht zu irgendeinem Menschen: Dafne ist Genetikerin, geradezu fanatische Atheistin und überzeugt, eine fantastische Schöpfung übertrumpfen zu können, hinter der sie definitiv keinen Gott vermutet. Für Gott selbst ist das frustrierend. Denn die großgewachsene Besamungstechnikerin ist eine hochintelligente, zielstrebige Wissenschaftlerin, die um Anerkennung in der italienischen Gesellschaft ringt, in der männlicher Chauvinismus regiert. Zu allem Überfluss, so scheint es, ist Gott auch noch männlich. Der Roman wurde von Werner Menapace übersetzt und erscheint im Herbst 2019 in der Verlagsreihe LW italica des LAUNENWEBER Verlages.

Growing up deaf, the young narrator is acutely aware of the vibrations around him and the emotions of those nearby. Struggling to meet adult expectations, he sometimes reacts by biting when agitated. His family is equally unique: his tech-savvy older brother, known as IQ or Robin Hood in the hacking world, targets the pesticide company harming their mother’s bees. Their estranged father, an engineer for Nutella, secretly profiles consumers while pretending to combat terrorism. After his divorce, he returns to live in a converted chicken coop with the family. Their grandfather, a retired anarchist, is focused on writing a grand work about worms. The family's dynamics shift dramatically when their mother is involved in a tragic accident, leaving her comatose. In her silence, the narrator believes that improving his behavior will help her wake up. He shares his daily experiences and thoughts with her through his speech therapist, Logo, who helps him communicate in sign language. He recounts stories about his brother's AI project, conflicts with a pesticide-using neighbor, and their innovative smart beehive. Additionally, he encounters a mysterious friend named Bug, who seems to know the family well. With warm humor and intelligence, the narrative explores complex themes of technology, nature, and familial relationships.

Diabolically funny and subversively philosophical, Italian novelist Giacomo Sartori’s I am God is the diary of the Almighty’s existential crisis that ensues when he falls in love with a human. I am God. Have been forever, will be forever. Forever, mind you, with the razor-sharp glint of a diamond, and without any counterpart in the languages of men. So begins God’s diary of the existential crisis that ensues when, inexplicably, he falls in love with a human. And not just any human, but a geneticist and fanatical atheist who’s certain she can improve upon the magnificent creation she doesn’t even give him the credit for. It’s frustrating, for a god. God has infinitely bigger things to occupy his celestial attentions. Yet he can’t tear his eyes (so to speak) from the geneticist who’s unsettlingly avid when it comes to science, sex, and Sicilian cannoli. Whatever happens, he must safeguard his transcendental dignity. So he watches—disinterestedly, of course—as the handsome climatologist who has his sights set on her keeps having strange accidents. And as the lanky geneticist becomes hell-bent on infiltrating the Vatican’s secret files, for reasons of her own…. A sly critique of the hypocrisy and hubris that underlie faith in religion, science, and macho careerism, I Am God takes us on a hilarious and provocative romp through the Big Questions with the universe’s supreme storyteller.