MON NOM EST DIEU

God decides to dictate his biography and it's full of surprises!

With a captivating style that appeals to a broad public, Pia Petersen constructs a novel around an audacious theme that can leave no one indifferent. God is among us. Depressed, disgusted, completely at sea, he cannot understand why men have turned away from him, nor why they are giving him other names. To right the situation, he decides to descend to earth, his purpose to have his biography written by a journalist he has carefully selected. Page after page, he is revealed in a light that is, to say the least, unusual. Chucking all the clichés, free of any and all religious dogma, this self-portrait of God offers an offbeat vision of human society, open to all questions, plunging into the physical and spiritual creation of a world that is in the process of losing its bearings. With a style that renders the transformation of myths into reality irresistible to the reader, this is a novel whose questions are far more important than its assertions. Born in Copenhagen, Pia Petersen has chosen to write in French. At 47, she is already the author of a dozen or so novels, including Une livre de chair (2011, Actes Sud) and Un écrivain, un vrai (2013, Actes Sud), both acclaimed by critics and booksellers.