"A Time of Miracles" is about the adventures of Gloria and Koumail. It starts in Caucasus, then Europe, and finally ends in France. Koumail is Gloria's true son but she changes the story because the real father of Koumail is Zemzem, who is a terorist. The book starts in a place called "The Comple...
On the afternoon when Angel Allegria arrives at the Poloverdos’ farmhouse, he kills the farmer and his wife. But he spares their child, Paolo–a young boy who will claim this as the day on which he was born. Together the killer and the boy begin a new life on this remote and rugged stretch of land...
It’s a vast village close to mountains made of recycled materials, like bricks, wooden boards, plastic, and galvanized iron. Everything is built haphazardly, but everyone manages to find a spot, and Gloria says that we’ll be living in clover. I don’t want to contradict her, but I think that the C...
She sat up beside Orpheus, silent and attentive, changing his dressings every hour, making him drink a decoction of boiled plants and roots that she had collected on Jahalod’s island. At dawn she saw that he seemed more peaceful, and deduced that he was no longer suffering pain. The bleeding had ...