A Strange Country by Muriel Barbery

Author:Muriel Barbery
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Europa Editions
Published: 2020-03-16T15:56:43+00:00

That is how Petrus’s life in Katsura began and, although the time has come for us to proceed more speedily with our tale, and return to the protagonists of the last battle of the war, we must say a few words about those years in the capital of the elves, simply because the world they embodied is now gone forever. For the last seven decades, those who have been in charge of the intrigues of fate relentlessly asked themselves this burning question: should they die to make way for a new era, or had their very world come to its end?

“We always believed that individuals and civilizations perished, but that the species would survive,” the Head of the Council would say one day to Petrus. “And what if our species has reached its own limits and is meant to die without leaving a trace? Should we not view this war differently?”

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