Books like Hopeful monsters by Nicholas Mosley
Hopeful Monsters intertwines romance and intellectual history, charting the journey of a young English physicist and a German‑Jewish anthropologist across Nazi Germany to the Los Alamos laboratory on the brink of the atomic era. The novel juxtaposes key figures and ideas—Einstein, Wittgenstein, communism, psychoanalysis, uncertainty, and relativity—crafting a vivid portrait of the era’s scientific breakthroughs and political upheavals.
First publish date: 1990
Genre: Romance/Historical Romance
Authors: Nicholas Mosley
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