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Homunculus

Homunculus

Literary Fiction

Hugh Paxton

Authors: Hugh Paxton
Print type: BOOK

Description:

"In a remote Catholic mission station in war-torn Sierra-Leone, a renegade Irish alchemist, Father Jack, has succeeded in creating a small legion of grotesque bio-robots. Anxious to be rid of his creations before problems arise, he tries to sell his homunculi, but he fails, and chaos ensues in this dark, bizarre, and highly readable novel from an award-winning journalist"--Page [4] fo cover.