β Scribed by Muriel Barbery
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
When the first glass was emptied, Alejandro and Petrus smiled at each other and JesΓΊs noticed the redheadβs lovely grey and pensive eyes.
βWhere did you come from?β he asked.
βFrom the bridge,β Petrus answered. βThe bridge that links our world to yours.β
Then, after a silence:
βIt is invisible to you.β
Alejandro de Yepes and Jesus Rocamora, young officers in the Spanish regular army, are stationed alone at Castillo when, out of nowhere, a friendly redhead appears to them in the cellar. There is something magnetic and deeply mysterious about this Petrus. Alejandro and Jesus are bewitched, and, in the middle of the sixth year of the longest war humankind has ever endured, they abandon their post to follow him across a bridge only he can see.
Petrus brings them to a world of lingering fog, strange beings, poetry, music, natural wonders, harmony, and extraordinary beauty. This is where the fate of the world and all its living creatures is decided. Yet this world too is under threat. A long battle against the forces of disenchantment is drawing to a climactic close. Will poetry and beauty prevail over darkness and death? And what role will Alejandro and Jesus play? Muriel Barberyβs new richly imagined novel, the sequel to The Life of Elves, will transport readers to a lost world exposed to the constant churn of civilizations and remind them of the power of poetry and imagination.
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