Time Traveler (set of 2 Volumes)
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About This Novel
This book is a long series "Time Traveler" by French writer Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt. This masterpiece, which the writer spent thirty years developing, tells the history of mankind in the form of a novel. As the first part of the series, "Lost Paradise" focuses on the end of the Neolithic Age and before and after the Great Flood. It uses a first-person narrative from Nomu's growth and love, to leading the tribe to escape during the Great Flood, thus creating the legend of Noah, to unexpectedly gaining the ability to live forever, wandering, looking for the love of his life who had the same fate, watching his relatives leave one after another, and so on. The narrative also includes a third-person narration about the present and future of people facing serious environmental problems and existential crises. "Gate to the Sky" is the second part of the series. It tells the story of the protagonist Nomu who gained the ability to live forever due to chance eight thousand years ago. He lived a life of a wanderer in the world and traveled to the Mesopotamian plains to witness the prosperity of the two river basins. In Babel, one of the earliest cities, he battled wits and courage with the monarch Nimrod. As a witch doctor, he treated all kinds of people from monarchs to slaves. He also witnessed the construction and collapse of the Tower of Babel.
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