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Olcinium: Trilogie

Tato trilogie vykresluje apokalyptickou vizi starobylého města, kde se proroctví mystiků střetávají s intrikami režimů a obyčejní lidé se uchylují ke zločinu a klamu, aby přežili. S precizním a jízlivě vtipným stylem sleduje osudy postav bojujících s vlastními démony a okolní realitou. Protagonisté, často beznadějní mizantropové, se potýkají s osobními tajemstvími a konspiracemi. Je to temné, ale zároveň humorné zamyšlení nad lidskou povahou tváří v tvář zkáze.

The Olcinium Trilogy
The Coming
Son

Doporučené pořadí čtení

  1. 1

    Son

    • 140 stránek
    • 5 hodin čtení
    3,4(16)Ohodnotit

    The Son follows one night in the life of a hero with no name, a writer whose life is falling apart. Stepping into the warm, Mediterranean night, in the southern Mediterranean city of Ulcinj, he encounters fanatics, thieves and prostitutes and learns the secret of his father's one obsession.

    Son
  2. 2

    The Coming

    • 110 stránek
    • 4 hodiny čtení
    2,5(2)Ohodnotit

    In a small town on the Adriatic coast, a local detective is content to sacrifice truth for the sake of telling his clients the stories they want to hear. At first, The Coming reads as a traditional detective novel, but suddenly changes form with the advent of snow in midsummer. When the town library burns down under mysterious circumstances, the detective s long-lost son begins to get involved in the investigations from afar. He takes the reader on excursions into history and recounts the life of Fra Dolcino, a medieval heretic who announced the return of the Messiah and also illuminates the life and work of Sabbatai Zevi, a Renaissance cabalist, who maintained that he himself was the Messiah. We learn that Sabbatai Zevi died in Ulcinj and left behind a manuscript, The Book of Return, which remains hidden. The unsolved mysteries of both past and present, as well as environmental anomalies, serve to create the sense of an impending apocalypse, giving way in the final chapter to a post-apocalyptic reality.

    The Coming
  • The Olcinium Trilogy

    • 316 stránek
    • 12 hodin čtení

    A compelling trilogy of short thrillers which centre around the ancient Mediterranean port of Ulcinj: site of treachery and mystery over the centuries, mixed in with Communist plots and secret service killings.

    The Olcinium Trilogy