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The Long Guest
Paperback
Series: The Scattering Trilogy, Book 1
Publisher Price: $23.99
ISBN13: 9781735835402
Publisher: Out of Babel Books
Published: Nov 2 2020
Pages: 520
Weight: 1.29
Height: 1.16 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
The year is 10,000 B.C. All mankind was united in one project: to build a great city with a magnificent tower that reached to the heavens. But the tower fell; God confused their languages, and overnight, their world dissolved into unimaginable chaos.
Family groups, still tied by language, salvage what they can and flee to the countryside to survive. On the way, the family group of Enmer stumbles upon a highborn man, who does not speak their tongue. He lies paraplegic and near death, having survived a fall from the tower.
The matriarch of the family insists they save him; he is a human being, is he not? But he is also hateful, demanding, and useless. But if they don't save him, who are they? And, if they do, he will leave them forever changed.
This sweeping epic starts at Babel and carries the action across the continent of Asia, even to the ends of the earth.
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