The Path Through the Centuries. Book 2. Heavenly Gates

Eric-Emmanuel Schmidt — a world celebrity, winner of the Goncourt Prize and many other awards. His novel «Oscar and the Pink Lady» has been called a life-changing book by readers, alongside the Bible, «The Little Prince» and «The Three Musketeers». His novels have been translated into 45 languages and in France, half a million copies are published every year. «Heavenly Gates» — the second volume of Schmidt's grand philosophical-romantic saga «The Path Through the Centuries». In the first volume «Lost Paradise», the immortal healer Noam survived the great flood, and now he is to witness Ancient Egypt, the Renaissance, and the industrial revolution, while in search of his immortal beloved — the incredible Nura, the only one for all millennia — he arrives in Mesopotamia, where humanity invented the still-existing way of living together. Large cities instead of small villages; taming rivers and irrigation instead of delicate and humble worship of Nature; the invention of astronomy and writing — before the eyes of the eternal wanderer unfolds the very progress for which humanity has sacrificed itself since the beginning of its history. And the pinnacle of this progress is the Tower to the heavens, to the very abode of the gods, built by slaves at the command of King Nimrod. The healer has access to any home — to slaves and to Queen Kubaba, to the court astrologer and to the shepherd Abraham — and before us, in all its details, unfolds the dizzying era from which humanity has inherited so much. For the first time in Russian!