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The gathering of mistletoe, a 100% Gallic elixir of youth, an assembly of druids in the shade of great oaks... The fabulous Celtic world never ceases to amaze Noam when he arrives in Gaul. But soon the arrival of a new kind of invader, the Romans, disrupts the balance of power.
From the famous Spartacus, a figure of revolt and hope who defied the Roman Republic, to Emperor Augustus and his wife Livia, the new masters of Rome at the cost of suspicious deaths and unsolved crimes, Noam witnesses, perplexed, the emergence of a concentration of power without limits.
Far away, in Jerusalem, a certain Jesus delivers a message entirely different from that of Rome. Advocating equality for all people, his words open a radically new horizon and inspire boundless hope. Two "kingdoms" emerge: one earthly and hegemonic, the other heavenly and accessible to all. Between these two worldviews, will Noam have to choose?
With flamboyant romanticism and effortless erudition, this new novel by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt embraces several fascinating civilizations and brings together two visions of our human condition, which, under other guises, still clash today.
