Angol
What if the most ancient song in the world is still sung? What if its melody and rhythm reverberate today across all continent? "Y" is a love story that unfolds with astonishing ease and clarity. It is a novel that unites romance, poetry, and nature adventure. It is a book full of superlatives: the oldest song in the world, the vastest expanses of the universe, and the single most astonishing gene shared by butterflies and humans. Y reaches from the U.S. national anthem into the most mysterious of all topics: human consciousness. On its way there, it translates lines from the heart of the Bible and from that most ancient Hindu book of songs: the Rig Veda. Based on extensive research, the novel reveals a world you didn't even imagine existed, told with blockbuster precision over 450 pages in 100 chapters. Every line is a poem.
The plot starts with a founding figure of neuroscience on his deathbed and unfolds just before July 4, 2026, the 250th anniversary of the United States. It reaches from the Mississippi to the Nile and the Indus, and to the mythic wonder of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Elea Zoé-the author-is part of the story. She is a mysterious figure who wishes only one thing: to share this story while remaining unknown, due to circumstances revealed in the fictional plot.
Prolog
Only a couple of minutes longer, the old man thought.
Then the heart monitor next to his bed lost the signal and began to sound an alarm-but he was still there, fully conscious, counting his own faint heartbeats: 21, 22, 23...
I must remain alert, he urged himself, like the soldiers who survived when I was a student.
In 1940, he had recently enrolled in medical school when he heard that wounded soldiers at the front had a much better chance of survival if they stayed conscious.
A surgeon, he remembered, had reported this from the front lines of the most devastating war the world had ever seen.
Once the soldiers lost consciousness, even ordinary wounds often proved fatal.
The professors at the university told him straight out that this made no sense. There was simply no reason why staying conscious should help fight infection.
He wanted proof, not opinion. Soon, he devised a test to double-check whether the surgeon was right.
The answer was: Yes! Every detail was true... and within a fortnight, the young man knew not only that it worked, but also how. ...
