- Devil, Scientific expeditions, Linguists, Voyages to the otherworld
In a cave in the Himalayas, a guide discovers a self-mutilated body with a warning: Satan exists. In the Kalahari Desert, a nun unearths evidence of a proto-human species and a deity called Older-than-Old.
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Grave, contemporary, unpretentious and epic.
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Jeff Long
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 450
- Publisher
- Audioworks, Crown Publishing Group, The, Gollancz
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780752834238
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“In the beginning was the word.”
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