Heart of Parma: Romance (reg.)

Book summary for "The Heart of Parma" by A. V. Ivanov: The 15th century AD, almost seven thousand years after the Creation of the World... The Principality of Moscow, growing stronger, sets its sights on the riches of its neighbors, near and far. Rus' slowly advances into the Urals. And in the Urals—not wild tribes, in the Urals—are pagan forest principalities, an ancient taiga world, wondrous and terrifying to outsiders. Here, they do not believe in the salvation of the righteous soul; here, they pray to the harsh gods of fate. Will the Orthodox cross overcome the thicket-dwelling evil of the eternal taiga—the coniferous ocean? Will the outsider Jesus Christ conquer this twilight universe? Will the people here become Russians? And will Russians become people here? Alexey Ivanov's novel "The Heart of Parma" is about how people and nations, in finding a homeland, find their destiny.Features:Series design—an art project in which all of Alexey Ivanov's novels are designed by artists working in very different styles—as different as the novels themselves. Read more…