Prayer to Proserpina
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Prayer to Proserpina
19.99 €
Ancient Rome, mid-1st century BC. Marcus Tullius Cicero, for educational purposes, sends his seventeen-year-old son to search for the manticore, the messenger of cataclysms, which allegedly emerged from the bowels of the earth in the province of Proconsular Africa. But in the African desert, Marcus Tullius the Younger and his companions - a warrior worshipping the goddess of the Earth, a young hapless shepherd, Punic hunters and a slave, a propagandist of revolutionary ideas - discover that creatures much more terrible have emerged from the bowels of the earth and they have very ambitious plans...
Albert Sánchez Piñol is an anthropologist, one of the biggest and most original stars of Catalan literature; he is not inferior to Jaume Cabra in originality and popularity. He is the creator of amazing worlds in which the real and the fantastic are mixed, and man again and again encounters Others in the best traditions of Lovecraft and Stevenson. In Sanchez Piñol's new novel, Prayer to Proserpina, people face the ultimate choice: change or die. And what is enlightened Rome willing to do—what are we all willing to do, in any country and in any age—to confront the threat of total human extinction?
Albert Sánchez Piñol is an anthropologist, one of the biggest and most original stars of Catalan literature; he is not inferior to Jaume Cabra in originality and popularity. He is the creator of amazing worlds in which the real and the fantastic are mixed, and man again and again encounters Others in the best traditions of Lovecraft and Stevenson. In Sanchez Piñol's new novel, Prayer to Proserpina, people face the ultimate choice: change or die. And what is enlightened Rome willing to do—what are we all willing to do, in any country and in any age—to confront the threat of total human extinction?
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