Nunquam — Lawrence Durrell

The brilliant scientist, Felix Charlock, is summoned from a madhouse by a supremely powerful international corporation. His assignment -- to help create an exact, functioning duplicate of lolanthe, the famous movie star, now dead, with whom Julian Merlin, chief of the firm, is deeply obsessed. It is a project born of an arrogance of power, an unbridled scientific compulsion and one man's agonizing impotence, but it is an incredible challenge -- to recreate a woman, breathing, thinking, remembering ... loving.

Nunquom carries forward the theme which began with Tunc, the destruction of the individual by the crushing force of modern technology. It is Durrell's most contemporary novel -- bawdy, fantastic, satiric -- compelling science fiction with the shock of impending fact.