Neil Griffiths is the author of
Betrayal in Naples, winner of Authors' Club Best First Novel, and
Saving Caravaggio, shortlisted for the Costa Best Novel of the Year. His new novel is
As a God Might Be. One of the author's ten top novels about God, as shared at the
Guardian:
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The first “God is dead” narrative, and Ivan Karamazov is its storyteller. In the chapter Mutiny, he explains to Aloysha, his younger brother and novice monk, why he is returning his ticket to be present at the end of time when all those who have suffered are finally redeemed. Focusing on reports of the torture and murder of children with a kind of ecstatic glee, he asks Aloysha whether he himself would make a world that ends with universal love at the cost of a single child’s suffering. It is the question all believers must ask themselves and then live with the answer.
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the other entries on the list.
The Brothers Karamazov made
Becky Ferreira's list of the eight best siblings in literature,
Alexandra Silverman's list of four famous writers who spent time in jail,
Paul Murray's top ten list of wicked priests in fiction,
James Runcie's top ten list of books about brothers, and is one of the
top ten works of literature according to Norman Mailer.
--Marshal Zeringue
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