The Path Through the Centuries. Book 4. The Light of Happiness

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt — a world-renowned celebrity, winner of the Goncourt Prize and many other awards. His novel «Oscar and the Pink Lady» has been named by readers as a life-changing book, alongside the Bible, «The Little Prince» and «The Three Musketeers». His novels have been translated into 45 languages and are published in huge editions in over 50 countries. «The Path Through the Centuries» is an epic philosophical-romantic saga by Schmitt, an attempt to encompass and comprehend the entire human history in a single glance.
...The tragedies of Euripides and the Olympic Games, the Peloponnesian War and the Athenian plague, the divine pantheon and the sprouts of rationalism. The immortal healer Noam, his eternal beloved Nura, and his half-brother Derek have survived the Great Flood, traveled to Mesopotamia, then to Ancient Egypt, and centuries later found themselves in 5th century BC Greece. The prophecy of the Delphic oracle and new love bring Noam to Athens. The great strategist Pericles and the mysterious Aspasia, Hippocrates, Alcibiades, Socrates, and his students — once again entering an unfamiliar and astonishing world, Noam acquires amazing friends. Before his eyes, sports, theater, philosophy, and democracy are born; before his eyes, people learn to govern society, reconcile the irreconcilable, but also to subject man to the crowd. Athens is filled with the light of happiness — but there will also be sorrow, and Noam will have to heal the wounds inflicted by human cruelty and love again.