This trilogy presents an apocalyptic vision of an ancient town where mystic prophecies clash with plotting regimes, and ordinary people resort to crime and deceit for survival. With precise and bitingly funny prose, it follows characters grappling with their inner demons and the surrounding reality. The protagonists, often hopeless misanthropes, confront personal secrets and conspiracies. It's a dark yet humorous exploration of human nature facing ruin.
The Son follows one night in the life of a hero with no name, a writer whose life is falling apart. Stepping into the warm, Mediterranean night, in the southern Mediterranean city of Ulcinj, he encounters fanatics, thieves and prostitutes and learns the secret of his father's one obsession.
In a small town on the Adriatic coast, a local detective is content to sacrifice truth for the sake of telling his clients the stories they want to hear. At first, The Coming reads as a traditional detective novel, but suddenly changes form with the advent of snow in midsummer. When the town library burns down under mysterious circumstances, the detective s long-lost son begins to get involved in the investigations from afar. He takes the reader on excursions into history and recounts the life of Fra Dolcino, a medieval heretic who announced the return of the Messiah and also illuminates the life and work of Sabbatai Zevi, a Renaissance cabalist, who maintained that he himself was the Messiah. We learn that Sabbatai Zevi died in Ulcinj and left behind a manuscript, The Book of Return, which remains hidden. The unsolved mysteries of both past and present, as well as environmental anomalies, serve to create the sense of an impending apocalypse, giving way in the final chapter to a post-apocalyptic reality.
A compelling trilogy of short thrillers which centre around the ancient Mediterranean port of Ulcinj: site of treachery and mystery over the centuries, mixed in with Communist plots and secret service killings.