This work is, in part perhaps, a kind of mea culpa...
It speaks of the extraordinary fortune we have to live on Earth, and denounces the fact that, to say the least, we have abused that privilege.
The first volume in a trilogy, this book also carries a personal vision of a simple truth: that we are insignificant, capricious human beings living on a beautiful planet, one that gives us everything it has - and that others, not so very far from here, envy us for it.
For we are not alone, of course...
This book is dedicated to nature, to memory, to science, and to love.
It is a fantastical epic, filled with heroes who carry within their hearts the fate of two universes - and in which one man, different from the others yet driven by an insatiable thirst to learn, will be torn from all he knows and hurled elsewhere...
To Tanhar, the wondrous...