To whom do you feel close
in sickness and in health
Daniel Dennett's Darwin's Dangerous Idea
nine hundred Jews held out for months against armies of Romans on a mountain in the Judean desert
New patterns of risk and uncertainty threaten the stability of our traditional institutions
Compass Premio Merck Serono for Romanzo (2006) To whom do you feelAs night falls over Vienna, Franz Ritter, an insomniac musicologist, takes to his sickbed with an unspecified illness and spends a restless night drifting between dreams and memories, revisiting the important chapters of his life: his ongoing fascination with the Middle East and his numerous travels to Istanbul, Aleppo, Damascus, and Tehran, as well as the various writers, artists, musicians, academics, orientalists, and explorers who populate this