Omega Minor wins Independent Foreign Fiction Prize

Paul Verhaeghen has won The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for his breathtaking epic novel Omega Minor. Read all about it in this article from The Independent.

'His victory with this exuberant, pyrotechnic, toweringly ambitious epic is a suitably mould-breaking event.'

'Flaubert wanted to write "a novel about nothing". Paul Verhaeghen seems to be aiming at the exact contrary: absorbing the whole 20th century in a single book. In Omega Minor, he creates a never-ending web of stories rooted in almost every field of knowledge, intertwining literature, history, poetry, philosophy, neuroscience, physics and metaphysics. One of the many ideas of the book is about escaping the past – or finding that it is impossible to escape. It is also about a simple and awful truth: that although reality is beyond our understanding, we continue to believe that the world is ultimately comprehensible.'