About 5,000 years ago, people were not that different from us. Looking at things this way probably would bring us too close to contemplating the tininess of this slice of time and universe we occupy. Even creating a past filled with myths, dragons and fantastic populations and societies helps ward off such painful awareness. None of that here.About 5,000 years ago, people were moving around.About 5,000 years ago in Northern Europe, where the story starts, agriculture was ga...

Greece. Southeastern Crete. Somewhere in the near future an odd city has been emerging from the economic void like a weed from a crack in concrete. Years later, it continues to build itself towards the planned, final height of about six miles.This is the chronicle of a few characters passing through a relatively short period of time in this improbable but possible environment. Although there is a logic to why and how things happen, what it really is when they do happen...

Ce roman s'inspire de nombreux faits ou hypothèses historiques pour écrire la vie quotidienne d'un homme du Nord et de sa fille. Des circonstances accidentelles, mais aussi historiques, les forcent à migrer vers le Sud. Cette chronique nous parvient donc d'un temps ou l'écriture n'existait pas encore.