PositiveThe New RepublicIs Giacomo Sartori, a soil scientist (for real) and the author of seven novels, just another \'new atheist,\' making fun of religion because it’s irrational? God, no. This novel is an utterly serious and wildly comic test of the strange idea we take for granted in reading prose fiction—the pretense of the omniscient narrator ... By speaking in the voice of God, Sartori has simplified the premise and complicated the result of writing as such ... We remember what hasn’t yet happened by writing about it, by conjuring what we have lost before we even know what that is, or will be. What better definition of omniscience could there be? No wonder Sartori’s God is a writer.
