{"product_id":"the-gospel-according-to-uhura-oded-levitte-9798276284606","title":"The Gospel according to Uhura","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHe lost his faith in the Mediterranean. He found a new one on the Bridge of the Enterprise.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHamid Rahman made it across the Channel. His God didn't.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter surviving the crossing from Syria - seven people drowned in the same boat that carried him to England - Hamid arrives in Birmingham with nothing: no papers, no community, no language for what he saw. The mosque offers certainty he no longer trusts. The asylum system offers waiting rooms and forms. A radical study group offers answers that feel, terrifyingly, like they might work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen a British convert at the local library hands him a Star Trek DVD and says: \u003ci\u003ejust watch it.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat follows is not a conversion story. It is something stranger and more honest - the account of a man who builds an entire moral philosophy out of borrowed fiction, who writes a Captain's Log to navigate a world that has no Prime Directive, and who discovers that the principles of Starfleet - communication, diversity, the refusal to impose your truth on another civilization - are, in practice, more demanding than any scripture he has ever read.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Gospel According to Uhura\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel about what we do when the stories we were given stop working, and what it costs - and gives - to build new ones from whatever is at hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor readers of\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Reluctant Fundamentalist\u003c\/i\u003e by Mohsin Hamid, \u003ci\u003eThe Kite Runner\u003c\/i\u003e by Khaled Hosseini, and anyone who has ever found more truth in fiction than in fact.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Oded Levitte\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798276284606\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/26\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 236\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.71lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d","brand":"Oded Levitte","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48801168851199,"sku":"9798276284606","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-gospel-according-to-uhura-oded-levitte-9798276284606","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}