Noah
HUGO LOETSCHER
SEAGULL, Literature
Hardcover, 2012, 9780857420466
AUD $24.50 ex, AUD $26.95 inc
In stock at: 17 Jun 2013 19:00
First published in German in 1967, newly translated into English, Hugo Loetscher’s Noah retells the ancient legend in light of capitalist reality making it a witty, delightful, and thought-provoking parable of our times. The eponymous Old Testament hero fuels his local economy with a prescient plan to build the Ark. Though no one around him seriously believes in the coming flood, everyone is more than willing to do business with him: ‘The people of Mesopotamia had never had it so good. There had been an economic miracle.’ It is boom time in Mesopotamia, and the economy is flourishing; but as with many financial bubbles, scandal and demise are not far out of sight.