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Il sogno dell'archeologo Ben Kazin sta per realizzarsi. Per anni, incurante del beffardo disprezzo dei colleghi, ha raccolto testimonianze della cultura orale africana, cercando di dimostrare che un'antica civiltà del Mediterraneo, probabilmente fenicia, si era stabilita nel Sudafrica e aveva fondato la mitica Città della Luna, Opet. Ora, grazie a una foto satellitare, Ben ha individuato una traccia concreta che lo porta fino nel Botswana, a Katuba Ngazi, le Colline di Sangue, dove, tra inseguimenti e cacce grosse, riesce a strappare alla terra i suoi segreti: gioielli, armi d'oro massiccio, antichissime pitture boscimane? e soprattutto un'iscrizione in cui si racconta la storia di Opet, il luogo prescelto dal dio del Sole Baal e dalla dea Astarte per custodire il Tempo. Ma per capire davvero le meraviglie della città scomparsa dovrà ripercorrere le crudeli vicende di quell'epoca magnifica e feroce e, soprattutto, interpretare la profezia che ne ha decretato la tragica fine. Che cosa può infatti aver determinato la scomparsa di un regno così forte e opulento? Esiste forse un legame tra Ben (soprannominato dai boscimani Piccolo-uccello-del-Sole) e il sacerdote Huy Ben-Amon, Grande-uccello-del-Sole? Il passato, inaspettatamente, si riflette nel presente e dà vita a un complesso, affascinante gioco di specchi che Wilbur Smith, qui alla sua prima avventura archeologica (anticipatrice della tetralogia dei romanzi egizi), mette in scena con assoluta maestria.
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- ISBN: 8830409251
- Casa Editrice: Longanesi
- Pagine: 426
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The first half is an interesting archeological boy's own romp and on its own would have been a 3/5. However it's the second half that raises this book to greatness. Ben Huy-Amon is a fantastic creation and the secret history of an empire that unfolds is do vivid detailed and ultimately heart-breakin Leggi tutto
Easily one of the best books I have ever read. Smith weaves a masterful tale of love, betrayal and adventure in this stand alone novel. This was the second of his books I tried after River God. I admit I was apprehensive, believing that nothing could surpass that amazing book but, while I wouldn't s Leggi tutto
দারুণ একটা বই, প্রায় এক সপ্তাহ ধরে পড়লাম বইটা এবং অনেক বেশি ভাল লেগেছে। বর্তমান সময় এবং প্রাচীন সময় সমানভাবে অনেক বেশি আগ্রহ নিয়ে পড়েছি। এই বইটা শুরু করার আগেরদিনই মোবাইল হারানো গিয়য।(এখনো কেনা হয়নি)+ একগাদা মেডিকেল টেস্ট নিয়ে সব মিলিয়ে বেশ আপসেট এবং ব্যস্ত ছিলাম, এর মাঝেও দারুণ বইটি শেষ ক Leggi tutto
Had I stopped at Part 1 I probably would have rated this one star. The story in Part 2 was much more compelling to me, and the characters and their motivations were much more interesting...I enjoyed understanding how what was found by the archaeologists in Part 1 came to be. I did not enjoy the prol Leggi tutto
È il libro più brutto di Wilbur Smith *. Cosa non mi è piaciuto? 1. Molti avvenimenti sono prevedibili. 2. La scelta di dividere nettamente la narrazione tra presente (prima parte) e passato (seconda parte) è sbagliata. Se uno riesce ad appassionarsi alla storia della scoperta archeologica (coprendosi Leggi tutto
Years ago, I downloaded The Sunbird as a kindle deal on a whim. None of my friends read it, I’ve never heard about the author or the book before, nor did I really read the description. In fact, I’ve no idea why I did what I did and I guess that is why it has been on my kindle all this time. Still, Leggi tutto
A hazy aerial photograph and a sinister curse – known only to the Africans – and Dr Benjamin Kazin stumbles on the archaeological discovery of a lifetime... For nearly two thousand years, a brilliant and unknown ancient civilisation has remained buried in southern Africa. Now at last the red cliffs o Leggi tutto
দ্য সানবার্ড : ইতিহাসের অতলে হারানো একটি সাম্রাজ্যের নায়ক-খলনায়ক, ভালোবাসা-হিংসা আর বিশ্বাস-বিশ্বাসঘাতকতার গল্প… প্রথম ভাগ : মর্ডান টাইমস দক্ষিণ আফ্রিকান ধনকুবের লোরেন স্টারভেসান্টের অনেকগুলো ব্যবসার মধ্যে একটা হলো খনি ব্যবসা। নিয়মিত জরিপের অংশ হিসাবে দক্ষিণ আফ্রিকার সীমান্তে অবস্থিত দেশ বতসোয়ানায Leggi tutto
This seems like a dry run for what Smith later did with the Egyptian historical novel "River God" and the contemporary African archaeological thriller "The Seventh Scroll", but the unexplored conceit of two stories in the same place (with a similar dramatis personnae) separated by 1800 years is clum Leggi tutto
To be honest, I didn't actually finish this book. I couldn't bear to read another 300 pages of the same story just set in another era. In fact, I started speed-reading large sections of the book just so I could feel like I was actually getting somewhere. When I finally got to Part II and read the fi Leggi tutto
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