In this deeply-felt homage to the powers of nature and art, two young girls are destined to change the world.
Maria & Clara Series
This series plunges into a world facing annihilation, where the fate of humanity rests with two exceptionally gifted girls. It celebrates the power of the human spirit, hope, and faith through an epic clash between good and evil. Discover a meditation on the potency of nature, art, music, and love as forces strive to restore the world's harmony. This is a timeless saga exploring the struggle between those who seek to mend the world and those who wish to shatter it forever.
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A Strange Country
- 336 pages
- 12 hours of reading
Alejandro de Yepes and Jesús Rocamora, young officers in the Spanish regular army, are stationed alone at Castillo when a friendly redhead named Petrus appears out of nowhere. There is something magnetic and deeply mysterious about him. Alejandro and Jesús 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 that 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 Jesús play? Muriel Barbery's richly imagined new novel, the sequel to The Life of Elves, will transport readers to a lost world exposed to the constant churn of civilisations and remind them of the power of poetry and imagination.