Pregària a Prosèrpina

When rumors of the existence of a terrible beast in North Africa reach Rome, the famous orator Cicero, "father of the country", decides to send his rebellious son, Marcus Tullius. If he succeeds in capturing the beast, he may regain his father's esteem. In the middle of the desert, however, the young Marcus Tullius Cicero and his expedition companions will have to face an unimaginable danger. An enemy that can put an end to the city founded by Romulus and Remus... and to life itself as humans have known it on Earth's surface. Faced with the terrifying threat, only generals as brave as Julius Caesar and Pompey, political rivals but masters of the military arts, will be able to face Rome's most formidable adversary. Will they manage to join forces? Or, as Cicero suspects, did the End of the World already begin with the decline of the Republic? In Prayer to Proserpina, Albert Sánchez Piñol turns the history of our civilization upside down as we had read it until now and, with a fast-paced narrative, full of surprising turns, leaves the reader breathless until the last page. If a man, or a people, is not able to change his soul, he will inevitably succumb to his fate.