The Path Through the Ages. Book 2. The Gates of Heaven
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The Path Through the Ages. Book 2. The Gates of Heaven
14.99 €
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt.
is an international celebrity, winner of the Goncourt Prize and many other honors. His
Oscar and the Pink Lady has been hailed by readers as a life-changing book,
along with the Bible, The Little Prince and The Three Musketeers. His novels
have been translated into 45 languages and are published every year in France.
half a million copies every year in France. "The Gates of Heaven" is the second volume of the grandiose.
of Schmitt's grandiose philosophical-romantic saga, The Way Through the Ages. In the first volume.
"Paradise Lost," the immortal healer Noam survived the Flood.
and then he has to see Ancient Egypt, the Renaissance, the Industrial Revolution.
the Industrial Revolution, but in the meantime, in search of his immortal beloved.
the incredible Noura, the one and only for all millennia, he comes to Mesopotamia.
Mesopotamia, where mankind invented a way of living together.
together. Large cities instead of small villages; river taming and irrigation.
instead of the delicate and humble worship of Nature; the invention of astronomy and writing -
writing - the very progress for which mankind has sacrificed itself ever since
for which mankind has sacrificed itself since the beginning of its history. And the crown of that progress
is the Tower to Heaven, the dwelling place of the gods, built by slaves.
on the orders of King Nimrod. The healer enters every house, slaves and queen.
Kubaba, to the court astrologer and to the shepherd Abram, - and the head of the gods is revealed to us in every detail.
the dizzying epoch from which mankind has inherited
has inherited so much.
is an international celebrity, winner of the Goncourt Prize and many other honors. His
Oscar and the Pink Lady has been hailed by readers as a life-changing book,
along with the Bible, The Little Prince and The Three Musketeers. His novels
have been translated into 45 languages and are published every year in France.
half a million copies every year in France. "The Gates of Heaven" is the second volume of the grandiose.
of Schmitt's grandiose philosophical-romantic saga, The Way Through the Ages. In the first volume.
"Paradise Lost," the immortal healer Noam survived the Flood.
and then he has to see Ancient Egypt, the Renaissance, the Industrial Revolution.
the Industrial Revolution, but in the meantime, in search of his immortal beloved.
the incredible Noura, the one and only for all millennia, he comes to Mesopotamia.
Mesopotamia, where mankind invented a way of living together.
together. Large cities instead of small villages; river taming and irrigation.
instead of the delicate and humble worship of Nature; the invention of astronomy and writing -
writing - the very progress for which mankind has sacrificed itself ever since
for which mankind has sacrificed itself since the beginning of its history. And the crown of that progress
is the Tower to Heaven, the dwelling place of the gods, built by slaves.
on the orders of King Nimrod. The healer enters every house, slaves and queen.
Kubaba, to the court astrologer and to the shepherd Abram, - and the head of the gods is revealed to us in every detail.
the dizzying epoch from which mankind has inherited
has inherited so much.
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