Fiction. Middle Eastern Studies. In this unforgettable novel the future and the past recreate one another and set the present afire with passion for the immortal wisdom, and immortal love and truth. The reader is invited to view the mind and the universe, intuition and reason, science and faith, and life and death with a profoundly new understanding. The trials and tribulations of the characters, even history, on their transcendental journey are recounted with a pen searching for the beginning and the end of everything-for the answers God never created. So humans must invent the answers as we have invented many things God did not create. This novel is a chapter in the book of answers.

MANOUCHER PARVIN, a polymath, has published novels, poems, short-stories and numerous works in various fields of sciences. His novels: Cry for my Revolution, Iran; and Avicenna and I, the Journey of Spirits now reprinted, and the novel-in-verse, Dardedel: Rumi, Hafez, and Love in New York have been acclaimed by reviewers. Alethophobia is his fourth novel. He has been active all his adult life for causes such as human-rights, the environment, and democracy. Professor Parvin has served as a television and radio commentator here and abroad and has lectured around the world. He is active in various sports, is a chess addict and not such a bad cook to boot!