Only Human Book

First came Adam, whose fall soured his quest for absolute authrity, then Noah, whose dreary sense of duty he found dull. god resolves for a thrid and final time to get it right, to select a vessel through whom to direct human affairs, and to whom to communicate directly. He chooses a solitary figure whose faith, once secured, will surely reflect even greater glory and love. Were matters only that simple. In Only Human, Jenny Diski's brilliant and affecting retelling of the Abraham and Sarah story, God learns that no man, Chosen or not, is solitary, and that bonds forged by the human heart are resilient even to divine commandment. Diski transforms an archetypal tale of Old Testament obedience into a fierce and funny love triangle, a battle of wills over not only mankind's future, but over who will tell the story of its past.