Jonathan Rabb Libros

Por el autor de "El senor del Caos"Asia Menor, siglo VI. Tras constantes enfrentamientos con la Iglesia cristiana, el maniqueismo, una secta heretica, desaparece de los anales de la historia.Bosnia, 1992. Ian Pearse, un estudiante de teologia norteamericano enviado en una mision de paz a Bosnia, se enfrenta a un grave dilema tras haber mantenido una intensa relacion con una joven croata.Roma, hoy. Un manuscrito codificado llega a manos del padre Pearse, convertido ahora en uninvestigador de la Biblioteca del Vaticano. Lleado por su curiosidad academica, Pearse hace traducir el documento y se encuentra ante unos resultados sorprendentes: el manuscrito contiene una oracion maniquea, Luz perfecta, de la que no se tenia constancia escrita hasta ese momento.Los documentos recien descubiertos desvelan un hecho asombroso: el maniqueismo, durante siglos considerado un movimiento erradicado en los albores del cristianismo, habria perdurado en la sombra con un claro objetivo: eliminar el catolicismo para imponer una nueva fe. Del Vaticano a Grecia y de vuelta a Bosnia, Pearse intentara evitar que la conspiracion logre sus fines.Jonathan Rabb, autor de El senor del caos, demuestra una vez mas su habilidad para crear una novela de intriga a partir de su erudiccion en temas politicos y religiosos."Rabb nos ofrece un fascinante crisol de documentos secretos, misterios de la antiguedad y conspiraciones atemporales."Katherine Neville, autora de El Ocho

El señor del Caos propone al lector imaginarse que un monje del siglo XVI llamado Eusebius hubiera escrito un plan dirigido a obtener el dominio mundial a través del caos, que superara con creces el ingenio y la osadía de Maquiavelo. Este texto se titularía Sobre la Supremacía y habría sido enviado al Papa Clemente VII, quien lo habría tenido en propiedad hasta su muerte, momento en que se habría perdido el rastro del documento. El manuscrito desarrolla el proceso de implantación del caos en todos los campos: económico, social y político, previo a la obtención del poder por este refinado demagogo.

"A moving novel about a Holocaust survivor's unconventional journey back to a new normal in 1940s Savannah, Georgia. In late summer 1947, thirty-one-year-old Yitzhak Goldah, a camp survivor, arrives in Savannah to live with his only remaining relatives. They are Abe and Pearl Jesler, older, childless, and an integral part of the thriving Jewish community that has been in Georgia since the founding of the colony. There, Yitzhak discovers a fractured world, where Reform and Conservative Jews live separate lives--distinctions, to him, that are meaningless given what he has been through. He further complicates things when, much to the Jeslers' dismay, he falls in love with Eva, a young widow within the Reform community. When a woman from Yitzhak's past suddenly appears--one who is even more shattered than he is--Yitzhak must choose between a dark and tortured familiarity and the promise of a bright new life. Set amid the backdrop of America's postwar south, Among the Living grapples with questions of identity and belonging, and steps beyond the Jewish experience as it situates Yitzhak's story during the last gasp of the Jim Crow era. Yitzhak begins to find echoes of his own experience in the lives of the black family who work for the Jeslers--an affinity he does not share with the Jeslers themselves. This realization both surprises and convinces Yitzhak that his choices are not as clear-cut as he might have thought"-- Provided by publisher

Rosa, reprinted with a revised cover, is the author's third novel after The Overseer and The Book of Q and is the first in the Berlin Trilogy. Shadow and Light was the second and The Second Son the third.

Set in Berlin during 1927, the story follows Kriminal-Oberkommissar Nikolai Hoffner as he investigates the suspicious death of a Ufa studio executive. Teaming up with filmmaker Fritz Lang and crime boss Alby Pimm, Hoffner delves into a dangerous underworld rife with sex, drugs, and political turmoil. The narrative explores the rise of Hitler's Brownshirts and the efforts of former monarchists to rearm Germany, creating a gripping backdrop for this electrifying thriller that captures a city on the brink of chaos.