From the pen of the international bestselling author of The Last
Legion comes a new political thriller set during the tempestuous
final days of Julius Caesar's Imperial Rome.It is March in the year
44 BC. The Roman Empire stretches from modern-day Syria in the east
to the Atlantic Ocean in the west. Gaius Julius Caesar, Pontifex
Maximus, dictator in perpetuity, indomitable military leader who
has subjected much of the known world to Roman law, is fifty-six
years old. He is at the height of his power, his reign is supreme
and his reach immense. Or so it appears. In truth, Caesar is
exhausted and ill, trapped in the prison of his own nightmares. His
divine missions-to end the bloody season of fratricidal wars, to
reconcile warring factions, to singlehandedly save Roman
civilization-may be too great for one man.The tide is turning
against Caesar and there are those who conspire against him. They
accuse him of being a tyrant. They say that when he dissolved the
alliance with Pompey the Great at the river Rubicon, he put an end
to liberty within the Republic. Caesar has resisted the attempts of
his betrayers to bring him down, still he cannot resist forever.
His power is being drained and it seems that nothing can save him,
not Publius Sextius-his most loyal centurion and comrade, who is
racing toward Rome in an attempt to prevent his assassination-or
his devoted wife, Calphurnia, not even the attentions of his lover
Servilla.The soothsayer's prophecies will out and when the Ides of
March have passed, the world will have changed forever.
V januári 1965 Gabriel García Márquez cestoval s rodinou na
dovolenku do Acapulca, keď odrazu dostal nápad. Začul vravu
mestečka Macondo. Už vedel, ako napíše svoj nový román. Vrátil sa
domov, zatvoril sa do pracovne, a keď z nej po osemnástich
mesiacoch vyšiel, v ruke držal 1 300 strán rukopisu a bol šťastný.
Román Sto rokov samoty prvý raz vyšiel v roku 1967, Márquez mal
vtedy 39 rokov a svet si navždy zapamätal jeho meno. Dnes je román
považovaný za jedno z najvýznamnejších diel latinskoamerickej a
svetovej literatúry. Je komponovaný z množstva reálnych aj
fantazijných epizód a rozpráva o pôvabných i krutých príhodách
šiestich generácií rodiny Buendíovcov z fiktívneho mestečka
Macondo.
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