Nathan, who has been plagued with a strange and dangerous curse since he can remember, just wants a normal life. His brother, Luca, wants nothing to do with normal. When they fall through a portal and end up on a foreign world with magic, monsters, and gods, Nathan realizes that normal is relative.
On a world where names are power, a book has been stolen that can destroy more than just Syndrial. Being safe from the book puts him in the path of two powerful forces, both of which have no problem using his brother against him. To protect Luca and get home alive, Nathan will have to master magic, find the Book of Names, and defeat a devastating enemy.
Genre: FICTION / Fantasy / EpicLuca and I were standing in the middle of a city that was very different from our homeland. We were on a busy cobblestone road. Many people shouted, but they were shouts of surprise, not terror. I was silent from shock. Unfortunately, Luca wasn’t.
“Did we just fall through the Earth and land in Egypt? We just fell through the fucking Earth and landed in fucking Egypt!”
The sand-colored stone buildings were Egyptian-esque, but not what I thought Egypt would look like, as they were massive and elegant. It was night, so there were torches alongside the roads and lanterns inside the buildings. There wasn’t a single electrical appliance or light bulb in sight. I could see colorful murals on interior walls through the windows, although I couldn’t make any of them out. The buildings struck me as homes, except that at least a hundred people could live comfortably in each of them.
The cobblestone street covered most of the ground and continued as far as I could see in both directions. The only dirt paths were the rare ones between the buildings. People watched us from the safety of the windows while everyone who was on the street gave us a wide berth.
I slowly reached into my jacket pocket, pulled out the five I had set aside for coffee, and handed it to Luca. He put it in his pocket without a word. It would never even have crossed his mind that this was my fault because I had insisted we went through the alley.
“I don’t have a passport. How are we going to get home?”
“Calm down,” I said. “We’re not in Egypt.”
He pointed to a five-hundred-foot-tall pyramid that could be seen over the tops of the buildings. “That is so far from the point right now it’s not even funny,” Luca said. “I don’t care where we are; I care where we’re not, which is home."
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Italian
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Translated by Rachele Riccetto
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Portuguese
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Translated by Christiane Jost
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Translated by Diego Alejandro Bustos
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