Journey Through the Ages. Book 2. Heaven's Gate
14.99 €
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Journey Through the Ages. Book 2. Heaven's Gate
14.99 €
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt is a world-renowned author, winner of the Prix Goncourt and many other awards. His novel Oscar and the Lady in Pink has been hailed by readers as a book that changed their lives, alongside the Bible, The Little Prince, and The Three Musketeers. His novels have been translated into 45 languages, and half a million copies are published annually in France. Heaven's Gate is the second volume of Schmitt's epic philosophical and romantic saga, A Journey Through the Ages.
In the first volume, Paradise Lost, the immortal healer Noam survived the Great Flood. He later travels through Ancient Egypt, the Renaissance, and the Industrial Revolution. Meanwhile, in search of his immortal beloved—the incredible Nura, unique throughout the millennia—he arrives in Mesopotamia, where humanity has invented a way of living together that still survives today. Large cities instead of small villages; the taming of rivers and irrigation instead of the delicate and humble worship of Nature; the invention of astronomy and writing—before the eyes of the eternal wanderer, the very progress for which humanity has sacrificed itself since the dawn of history is unfolding. And the crowning glory of this progress is the Tower reaching to the heavens, to the very abode of the gods, which slaves are building by order of King Nimrod. The healer is welcome in every home—to the slaves and to Queen Kubaba, to the court astrologer and to the shepherd Abram—and before us, in every detail, unfolds the dizzying era from which humanity has inherited so much.
In the first volume, Paradise Lost, the immortal healer Noam survived the Great Flood. He later travels through Ancient Egypt, the Renaissance, and the Industrial Revolution. Meanwhile, in search of his immortal beloved—the incredible Nura, unique throughout the millennia—he arrives in Mesopotamia, where humanity has invented a way of living together that still survives today. Large cities instead of small villages; the taming of rivers and irrigation instead of the delicate and humble worship of Nature; the invention of astronomy and writing—before the eyes of the eternal wanderer, the very progress for which humanity has sacrificed itself since the dawn of history is unfolding. And the crowning glory of this progress is the Tower reaching to the heavens, to the very abode of the gods, which slaves are building by order of King Nimrod. The healer is welcome in every home—to the slaves and to Queen Kubaba, to the court astrologer and to the shepherd Abram—and before us, in every detail, unfolds the dizzying era from which humanity has inherited so much.
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series A Great Romance
- Все книги цикла The path through the centuries
