God Sees

An ironic and intelligent novel about the complexities of the relationship between man and God, a relationship that is strictly mutual. God can forgive King David, but the elderly David does not forgive God and has no intention of reconciling with Him. He has many grievances — about the character of numerous wives, his son Solomon (from a father's perspective, the future great sage is outrageously foolish), a complicated youth, accessible inner enlightenment to Shakespeare, Mozart, Handel, and Nietzsche, as well as many biblical figures, who for David are not characters at all, but personal acquaintances, and therefore he recalls them, to put it mildly, without much respect. But one can argue and quarrel with God, but how does one argue and quarrel with fate?..