The Fig Tree
By Aubrey Menen
1963
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182
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A satirical description of the attempts of a scientist to convert a fig tree into the tree of life using a chemical process. Scandal soon rocks the very foundations of the church, when the figs turn out to be an aphrodisiac. The author has also written "The Abode of Love".
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3.56
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Aubrey Menen
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Salvator Aubrey Clarence Menen was born in 1912 in London, of Irish and Indian parents. After attending University College, London he worked as a drama critic and a stage director. When World War II broke out, he was in India, where he organized pro-Allied radio broadcasts and edited film scripts for the Indian government. After the war ended, he returned to London to work with an advertising agency's film department, but the success of his first novel, The Prevalence of Witches (1947), induced him to take up writing full-time. Aubrey Menen’s writings, often satirical, explore the nature of nationalism and the cultural contrast between his own Irish–Indian ancestry and his traditional British upbringing. Apart from his novels and non-fiction works Menen wrote two autobiographies titled Dead Man in the Silver Market (1953) and The Space within the Heart (1970). He died in 1989 in Thiruvananthapuram.
