Details:

Pages: 221
Format: 130 x 195 mm
Word count ≈ 32 400
ISBN: 9789941375460

The Licit Magic

Author: Irakli Metreveli

Description: 

The Licit Magic, only the second novel by Irakli Metreveli is a masterful mix of Magic Realism and Alternative History genres.

As the Soviet Union edges toward its demise, Mikhail Gorbachev entrusts a crucial mission to a KGB spy in Paris: locating a mediaeval Persian treatise on metaphor – with the belief that the lost manuscript holds the key to salvaging the crumbling empire. The course of history cannot be reversed, but the spy uncovers elusive words whose mysterious mirage had haunted him throughout his life, and which offer the promise of fulfilling a grand dream fallen from the sky like rain. “These are scintillating words, unexplored, unstudied, and untranslated — the primal source of the Universe. Listen to their subtle rustling, contemplate their free movements, rejoice with them.”

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