I thought of this yesterday. I cannot tell whether it will end up being weekly, bi-weekly; monthly or bi-monthly... As the title says, it's "random" discoveries, so I'll be sharing randomly as they come.
RANDOM DISCOVERIES #1: ANGELOLOGY by DANIELLE TRUSSONI
I came across this yesterday when I was reading the 'Books' section of a newspaper at lunchtime at work. It's recently published in Turkish, and the article was talking about how the angel madness is conquering the world. It also talked about how the book pulls from myths, which perked my interest. So today I went into a bookstore and read the first 5 - 6 pages of it. The translation felt fine, and I seemed to not want to put it down. Unfortunately, I'm currently broke, but I'll most likely pick it up next week.
ANGELOLOGY by DANIELLE TRUSSONI
A thrilling epic about an ancient clash reignited in our time- between a hidden society and heaven's darkest creatures
There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children to them.
Genesis 6:5
Sister Evangeline was just a girl when her father entrusted her to the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration in upstate New York. Now, at twenty-three, her discovery of a 1943 letter from the famous philanthropist Abigail Rockefeller to the late mother superior of Saint Rose Convent plunges Evangeline into a secret history that stretches back a thousand years: an ancient conflict between the Society of Angelologists and the monstrously beautiful descendants of angels and humans, the Nephilim.
For the secrets these letters guard are desperately coveted by the once-powerful Nephilim, who aim to perpetuate war, subvert the good in humanity, and dominate mankind. Generations of angelologists have devoted their lives to stopping them, and their shared mission, which Evangeline has long been destined to join, reaches from her bucolic abbey on the Hudson to the apex of insular wealth in New York, to the Montparnasse cemetery in Paris and the mountains of Bulgaria.
Rich in history, full of mesmerizing characters, and wondrously conceived, Angelology blends biblical lore, the myth of Orpheus and the Miltonic visions of Paradise Lost into a riveting tale of ordinary people engaged in a battle that will determine the fate of the world.
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Başta bahsettiğim gibi kitap 'Asi Melekler' ismiyle Türkçe'ye çevrilmiş. Doğan Kitap'tan sert kapak olarak çıkmış ve tüm kitapçılarda yerini almış. Fiyatı 26TL -- bana kazık geldi açıkçası ama siz de ilk bir kaç sayfayı okuyup kendi kararınızı verin. Fragmanını burada izleyebilirsiniz.
ASİ MELEKLER - DANIELLE TRUSSONI
Melekler dünyayı sardı, şimdi sıra Türkiye’de…New York Times Bestseller yazarından melekbilim, Orpheus’un liri, düşmüş melekler ve dünyamızın kaderini belirleyecek son savaş üzerine çarpıcı bir eser… 2010’un en çok ses getirecek kitabı karton kapak fiyatına sert kapak…
Evangeline 12 yaşındayken annesi öldü, babası onu New York’ta Azize Rose manastırına bıraktı. Şimdi 23 yaşında, yeminine sadık bir rahibe. Dünyada en nadide melek resimlerinin ve “melekbilim” konusundaki en zengin kitap koleksiyonunun bulunduğu kütüphaneden sorumlu.
Rockefeller ailesinin sanat etkinliklerini, zengin ve tuhaf bir adam olan Percival Grigori adına araştıran sanat tarihçisi Verlaine’den gelen mektup, Evangeline’in hayatını kökünden değiştirecektir. Verlaine ve Evangeline, Tanrı’nın lanetine uğramış asi meleklerin soyundan olan Nefiller ile Melekbilimciler arasında yüzlerce yıldır süren kanlı bir savaşa katılmak zorunda kalacaklar. Bulgaristan’da bin yıl önce bir melek cesedinin bulunduğu gizemli Rodop Dağları’ndan Paris’teki Montparnasse mezarlığına kadar pek çok cephede sürmektedir bu savaş…
