List Number: | 29260 |
EAN: | 9788020721341 |
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Manufacturer: | Odeon |
Price excluding VAT: | 399,20 Kč (16,63 €) |
is the year 2027, when a French society overwhelmed the presidential campaign paralyzes cyber and terrorist attacks. The perpetrators mostly target the symbols of modern Western civilization and use such advanced digital effects that it is difficult to distinguish between illusion and reality. Also Paul Raison, an advisor and confidant of the Minister of Economy, sometimes falls into irrational dreams, while his family life is on the verge of demise. Although they live with a woman in a luxury apartment in the middle of Paris, they have long since alienated each other. Nor do they have children, although those "are no longer enough to save the couple". He does not understand his siblings: his sister from the poor industrial region remained as a strongly believer in the household, his brother gets stupid by his wife and lives only for restoration of tapestries. He and his father see more of a duty, his father's mate is afraid of him.
From the sleepy gradual decay, the family will tear the irreversible intervention from above. Paradoxically, the disease is born to life, and the misfortune is an opportunity for rapprochement. At the beginning of the novel, the novel spills in many streams, but many of them weaken and disappear along the way. The chaotic and spontaneous Paris contrasts with the nostalgic and calm rural areas, great history, perhaps a harbinger of future development, intertwine with timeless individual fates. As a participant of political struggle, the Minister of Economy works with the help of a consulting company on his charism, security forces are looking for an indication that would bring them to a trace of brilliant terrorists, and other heroes learn to listen to the furrows of the leaves in the wind and discover the pleasure of love touch. However, the proximity of nothingness is ubiquitous…