
Like his great, great uncle, the early geneticist Gregor Mendel, Dr. Benedict Lambert is struggling to unlock the secrets of heredity. But Benedict's mission is particularly urgent and particularly personal, for he is afflicted with achondroplasia--he's a dwarf. He's also a man...


Dr. Benedict Lambert is an acclaimed British geneticist. His great-great-great uncle was Gregor Mendel, the reclusive Austrian monk who pioneered modern genetics. Ironically, Ben is the victim of one of nature's crueler jokes, a genetic mutation called achondroplasia. In other...
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Hailed by the New Yorker as furious, tender, and wittily erudite, Mendel's Dwarf is a novel that explores the brave new world of genetic science and the depths of the human heart. Like his great, great uncle, the early geneticist Gregor Mendel, Dr. Benedict Lambert is struggling...

