Résultats pour "Aleph" dans Space-opera

Widely regarded as Sadegh Hedayat's masterpiece, The Blind Owl is the most important work of literature to come out of Iran in the past century. On the surface, this work seems to be a tale of doomed love, but soon basic facts become obscure and the listener realizes this book is much more than a love story. Although The Blind Owl has been compared to the works of Kafka and Poe, it defies categorization. By preserving the spirit as well as the structure of Hedayat's writing, this edition brings the English listener into the world of The Blind Owl as never before.

Still reeling from a former teammate's betrayal, Commonwealth operative Simon Kovalic and his band of misfit spies have no time to catch their breath before being sent on another impossible mission: to pull off the daring heist of a quasi-mythical alien artifact, right out from under the nose of the galaxy's most ruthless crime lord. But their cold war rivals, the Illyrican Empire, want the artifact for themselves. And Kovalic's newest recruit, Specialist Addy Sayers, is a volatile ex-con with a mean hair-trigger who might put the whole mission at risk.

O livro revela mais profundamente o lado humano de Paul e de sua irmã, Alia Atreides. Na trama, doze anos se passaram desde a ascensão de Paul Atreides - ou Muad'Dib - ao trono. Arrakis tornou-se o centro do Imperium, a partir de onde os fremen se propagam a fim de levar sua filosofia e sua forma de governar aos planetas por eles conquistados.