„GenOM is a multi-layered tale of a return to abandoned dreams, set in the ruthless world of science. The protagonist is Teodor Zaks – a charismatic, obsessive microbiologist who has devoted his entire life to the search for the ‘gene of perfection’. In his arrogance, he believes that musical genius can be mechanically encoded into DNA, modelled and predicted. This story, however, is an account of his painful yet liberating downfall: Teodor discovers that what is biologically perfect is utterly lifeless. And what is most important in life lies hidden in what might seem like a mistake. During a symposium, Teodor announces that musical genius can be programmed and predicted. He treats his son Adam, who shows no compositional talent, as a ‘biological defect’. The desperate scientist embarks on a radical experiment