A Unique Gene

6 hrs. 35 min.

Language Russian

Author Karin Boyce

Narrator Ivan Bukchin

Description

Thirty-year-old Doris, a freelance correspondent for a major city newspaper, gathers materials about the new Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology and Medicine. The Icelandic-Swedish scientist Paul Karasson has discovered a gene that simultaneously determines a tendency toward creativity and schizophrenia. The topic is of interest to Doris not only professionally but personally, because this illness affects her brother—once a gifted mathematician and Sweden’s champion at Go. The journalist accidentally meets the laureate’s thirty-five-year-old son—Ern, also a scientist—and between them sympathy arises. *** Karin Bojs (born 1959) is a science reporter for Sweden’s largest newspaper Dagens Nyheter and the author of a widely translated popular science book about genetics (in the Russian translation, "My prehistoric family. A genetic detective story". Individuum, 2020). "The Special Gene" is her first experience in the genre of a novel. As the author admits, "this book is largely based on my own experience. Many years ago I entered journalism as a freelance correspondent for the Aftonbladet newspaper and worked for almost two decades as editor of the science department at Dagens Nyheter."