Seventeen-year-old Abram is a brilliant and sensitive young man. He is coming of age in an ancient, walled city within a mighty desert empire. There comes a night, under the milky-white of the full moon, that he experiences a shocking vision of the divine. He is jarred by a sense of Existential whiplash. He asks: Why is it that the sun's strong light exposes our bodies, yet the moon's milky-white exposes our soul?

Ever since he was a child he always felt like a citizen of a different realm, but he never understood that feeling until that fateful night. Society expects him, under dire threat and consequences, to conform to its religious dogma. He wrestles with a gut-wrenching decision: If he speaks against his society's dogma, and reveals his vision, he will disappoint and anger his father. He will also cause punishing retribution against his family. But he is on fire for his new-found vision of the Source of Creation. What will he do?

He only feels secure in confiding in his friend and schoolmate Khaferu. This friendship further shapes and molds his vision of the divine. He slowly realizes that his new-found vision of the Source extends far beyond the vagaries of his own life. It is destined to bend the arc of history.

"SHARDS OF DIVINITIES may be called great literature by many readers...
...I enjoy challenging books and learning from them. I thought the ending was very well done. The author has created a satisfying read."
- Review by Writer's Digest

Shards Of Divinities will expand your mind and touch your soul with its beautiful language and evocative themes and ideas. It is a story of humanity's yearning for the transcendent. It is also a tapestry of complex and poignant family relationships.

"Nissim opens his book with a sense of timelessness.....An enriching journey, this, one that refuses to focus on one direction of thought, preferring to embrace all
possibilities that often leap out of reach of our thought processes. Read this book
at a leisurely pace: it is a pillow for contemplation of all that we know and do
not know."- Grady Harp, HALL OF FAME TOP 100 REVIEWER, VINE VOICE
About the Author: I've always been a philosopher and a mystic. As a child in Israel, I was fascinated by flight and space exploration. Those were the years shortly after the first moon landing and there was much optimism for an even greater future of space exploration. I dreamed of becoming an astronaut, or at the very least a jet fighter-pilot. Space exploration was a mystical pursuit in my opinion. As I entered my teens my interests shifted to more abstract realms. I lost my religious faith and became an atheist. I dreamed of becoming a theoretical physicist. The counter-intuitive aspects of Quantum Mechanics and Relativity Theory fascinated and convinced me there is a veiled aspect to Reality that if understood could lead to a deep spiritual enlightenment. I studied physics for a few years in university, but despite my talent for mathematics and logical thinking, I was not suited to formal education. I did not have the temperament for it. I have always been a dreamer, a poet, an intellectual and a mystic. During my mid-thirties, my interests became even more abstract and I was enthralled by the great logician Kurt Godel and also by Chaos Theory and Fractal Geometry. As the years passed my ideas evolved and I began to see that they were converging on notions of divinity; not the traditional god of monotheism bur rather a divinity of what I call metatheism, which is my attempt to redefine god, and by extension why and how the universe is here. I leveraged ideas from Godel's Incompleteness Theorems and also from Chaos Theory. I became fascinated with writing a book about these ideas. I began writing Shards Of Divinities during the Spring and Summer of 2006. My marriage broke down in July of 2006 and I stopped writing. For the next six and a half years I clung to my dream of completing my book but I didn't write a word. During late 2012 I became aware of Kindle eBooks and I resumed my writing with the intent of releasing novella-sized chunks of my ideas. I didn't want to wait until my grand opus is completed. Shortly after I published the first iteration of Shards Of Divinities I realized that I could not release it in small chunks. I had to release the whole novel as one cohesive whole. During late 2013 I deactivated Shards Of Divinities from Amazon. After two and a half years of additional, on and off, writing I completed the full novel in May of 2016. I've put my all into Shards Of Divinities and I'm happy with the outcome. I hope you will be too. See less