The oracle

Manfredi Valerio Massimo

ISBN 10: 0330437925 / ISBN 13: 9780330437929

Editore: Pan books, 2005

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RO30353017: 2005. In-12. Broché. Etat passable, Coins frottés, Dos plié, Papier jauni. 342 pages. Texte en anglais. Rares rousseurs. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.

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• Titolo: The oracle
• Editore: Pan books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0330437925
• ISBN 13: 9780330437929
• Rilegatura: Couverture souple
• Condizione: bon
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November 1973. Professor Periklis Harvatis, working alone and late into the night on an important archaeological dig, unearths a magnificent golden vase upon which the enigmatic images of a long-lost second Odyssey are engraved, showing the mystery of Ulysses' final voyage. But in the bleak chamber where he finds it he sees something so frightening that less than seven hours later, a broken man, he is dead...but not before he has ensured the safety of the vase.
Ten years on, and a series of violently gruesome deaths connected to the rape and murder during the student protests in Athens of a beautiful Greek woman, on the same night as Professor Harvatis's discovery, is perplexing the authorities. Each atrocity is accompanied by a dire quotation from the ancient sources, exposing an ingeniously cruel mind.
Who is behind these murders? How are these two events connected? And what is the significance of the age-old prophecy of the Odyssey?

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Phenomenally successful novelist, Valerio Massimo Manfredi, returns with a modern thriller inspired by an ancient prophecy