Gemma Nieto is a novel author immersed in a cultural thriller that manages to convey the force of words in a fast-paced action novel.
A novel that shows us that words can still move mountains.
What if reading an alphabet had the power to move mountains? What if someone would read it today?
Long before Christ, our ancestors knew the power of the sounds, the power of words read aloud. But we have forgotten them for centuries and their magic resonate in our minds just empty of meaning.
We know that words can hurt, they are able to harm or emotion us, but little else. But somewhere in our evolutionary brain still keep the memory of what we might do with them if we knew how. Between us there is someone who has not forgotten them, still knows how to read the actual words. And he will do.
Mandaeans three bowls and a gold charm are the key elements that lead us to an adventure full of characters who move behind the scenes trying to seize power that holds an ancient Mandaean alphabet.
Two days after the invasion of Iraq, the National Museum in Baghdad is a market street with the doors open wide their wares to anyone who wants to steal them.
When the Iraqi Sadoun Ahmed steals an old clay bowl commissioned by some British customers, is not aware of the events that just trigger. His act will launch a chain of events fueled by men who work behind the scenes to plunder mankind from their greatest asset, but also the most forgotten sounds.
No one had ever in-tempted to appropriate the words, voices that move the world and which make us shudder with pain or cry with joy. But the professor Samuel Sinclair is willing to do. In his career to follow them he must to manipulate the Mandaeans, the traditional custodians of a Gnostic faith, unique in the world and that has survived centuries of persecution. A faith older than Christianity, certain to disappear in the XXI century due to religious intolerance.
A novel that shows us that words can still move mountains.
What if reading an alphabet had the power to move mountains? What if someone would read it today?
Long before Christ, our ancestors knew the power of the sounds, the power of words read aloud. But we have forgotten them for centuries and their magic resonate in our minds just empty of meaning.
We know that words can hurt, they are able to harm or emotion us, but little else. But somewhere in our evolutionary brain still keep the memory of what we might do with them if we knew how. Between us there is someone who has not forgotten them, still knows how to read the actual words. And he will do.
Mandaeans three bowls and a gold charm are the key elements that lead us to an adventure full of characters who move behind the scenes trying to seize power that holds an ancient Mandaean alphabet.
Two days after the invasion of Iraq, the National Museum in Baghdad is a market street with the doors open wide their wares to anyone who wants to steal them.
When the Iraqi Sadoun Ahmed steals an old clay bowl commissioned by some British customers, is not aware of the events that just trigger. His act will launch a chain of events fueled by men who work behind the scenes to plunder mankind from their greatest asset, but also the most forgotten sounds.
No one had ever in-tempted to appropriate the words, voices that move the world and which make us shudder with pain or cry with joy. But the professor Samuel Sinclair is willing to do. In his career to follow them he must to manipulate the Mandaeans, the traditional custodians of a Gnostic faith, unique in the world and that has survived centuries of persecution. A faith older than Christianity, certain to disappear in the XXI century due to religious intolerance.
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