Where do we come from? Since the dawn of time, humans have been asking themselves this question. In this novel, which is both a thriller and an adventure story, Bernard Weber takes us from a newspaper’s newsroom to the botanical garden, to the laboratories of scientific paleontologists, and into the heart of Africa, where everything is said to have begun hundreds of millions of years ago.
Is man a monkey that mutated, and if so, why this mutation? A fish that one day decided to leave the waters to see the world in a different way? And again, why.
The explanation offered by the Bible does not suffice for these scientific minds who propose theories without being able to confirm them with theses. Each has their own idea, and these scientists are at war with each other, even to the point of killing.
Bernard Weber thus leads us alongside two journalists. They want to write a piece on this question: Who was our father? The father of our fathers.
In his novel, the author seeks to answer this question while taking us from Paris and the botanical garden to the home of a murdered scientist and to southern Africa in pursuit of this quest for a new Grail.
A captivating, gripping novel where the reader finds themselves alongside the heroes, two journalists. The father of our fathers is a never-ending story, as we actually do not know the beginning. If the Bible provides an answer using metaphors in Genesis, it is not contradicted by scientific analyses that propose theories without being able to prove them. Six days to create the world? Let us not forget that God’s measure of time is not calculated on a human scale but in millennia.
Moreover, the author poses questions, evokes various theories both scientific and religious, leaving each person to respond or adhere according to their convictions.
Thierry Jan
