Mendel’s Dwarf

Contemporary Literature & Fiction

Author: Simon Mawer

Dr. Benedict Lambert, the hero of Mendel’s Dwarf, is very much a leg man, not that he has much choice in the matter. For the celebrated geneticist is a dwarf, a man resigned to being stared at for a little too long from some way up, and inured to bromides about inner beauty and outward bravery. As far as he’s concerned, bravery requires choice–something he never had, sinc….Read More

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